DK Shivakumar is facing another problem?
Bengaluru, June 20: The statement of Karnataka Bhavan former public relation officer Anjaneya that “the money found in my house was not mine and it belonged to DK Shivakumar” has fixed Water Resources Minister DK Shivakumar in a legal complication.
But DK Shivakumar reacted that “I have not done any mistake. I hope that I would get justice in the court of law. I will attend the IT investigation. I will not speak anything now. I will disclose everything at a right time”, he said.
Meanwhile, BJP demanded the resignation of Minister DK Shivakumar. But Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy asked as to why Shivakumar should resign from the post.
The notice served by the IT to Shivakumar asking him to attend the investigation has created turmoil in the political circle. In view of this sudden development, Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy discussed this issue with his father and former prime minister HD Deve Gowda who advised the CM to take decision cautiously.
About the incident
When the Income Tax department sleuths conducted raids on the offices and house of DK Shivakumar, the IT cell also raided the houses of Shivakumar’s close aids. During the raid, the IT sleuths found more than Rs 12 crore cash. But Rajendra, Sunil Sharma and Anjaneya, said to the close associates of Shivakumar, gave different statements. But after seven months of the raid, they have given different statements to the IT in writing and this has given new twist to the entire episode.
When IT raided on four flats in Delhi, the sleuths found Rs 8.56 crore. The IT officials also confiscated a diary, some notes which have some code words, from the house of Rajendra, who has been looking after Sharma Transport business. Now, the IT officials found sources of those materials. It was mentioned in the diary that Rs 5 crore was given to AICC through a person Mulagund. It was said that the amount was given to the AICC on the direction of Shivakumar.
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Rahul Gandhi to join Congress padyatra in Bihar, address party workers
Patna (PTI): Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, will join the party's ongoing 'Palayan Roko, Naukri Do' padyatra in Bihar's Begusarai district on Monday.
Later in the day, he will return to Patna from Begusarai to address the 'Samvidhan Suraksha Sammelan' (Save the Constitution Symposium). After that he will visit Sadaqat Ashram, the Bihar Congress office in Patna, to address party workers.
This will be Gandhi's third Bihar tour since January, when he had urged party workers to "inflict an ideological defeat" on the BJP in the assembly polls due later this year.
The Raebareli MP shared a minute-long video message on X on Sunday, urging the youth of Bihar to join him in the march in Begusarai wearing "white T-shirts".
"Our aim is to draw the attention of the world to the plight of Bihar's youth, who find government jobs getting scarce day by day and privatisation bringing no benefits. Let us bring the government in the state under pressure and change it," he said in the video.
Begusarai also happens to be the home district of Kanhaiya Kumar, who has been the star attraction of the padyatra, which began in East Champaran district last month.
The former JNU students' union president had unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, on a CPI ticket, from the seat.
In the Bihar assembly polls, the Mahagathbandhan, comprising RJD, Congress and the Left, is pitted against the ruling Nitish Kumar-led NDA that also comprises the BJP.
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