Kumaraswamy is blackmailing to keep Congress leaders under control: BSY
Resignation issue
Bengaluru, Jan 28: “On one side, Kumaraswamy’s statement is saying everything is not fine in the coalition government and on the other side, it is a blackmailing strategy through AICC president Rahul Gandhi to keep the Congress leaders under control”, said BJP state president BS Yeddyurappa.
“Resignation statement of the Chief Minister is exposing the internal bickering within the coalition partners. The differences between Congress and JDS proved the statement of the Chief Minister.
The CM and the Congress leaders have been passing buck on us saying that the BJP has been doing ‘Operation Lotus’ in order to divert the attention of the people and it is a biggest strategy to cover-up the failures of the coalition government”, he said in a press statement.
Though there was severe drought in the state, the coalition government was sleeping. So, it was not bothering about the plights of the people. Though it was almost one month after a farmer’s suicide at Doddachellur village in Chitradurga district, no officer or elected representative have visited the house of the farmer, he said.
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ED searches: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah accuses Centre of targeting Cong leaders
Chamarajanagara (Karnataka) (PTI): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday accused the central government and its agencies of consistently targeting Congress members by using searches on their properties, and questioned why similar action is not taken against BJP leaders.
He was reacting to searches conducted by the Enforcement Directorate on Monday on several individuals, among them the sons of Karnataka Congress MLA N A Haris and the grandson of former Union Cabinet minister K Rahman Khan, in connection with a cryptocurrency-linked money laundering case.
"The central government always targets Congress leaders. Will they raid the houses of BJP leaders?" Siddaramaiah said in response to a question. More than a dozen premises in the city were searched as part of the operation carried out by the ED under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The premises searched comprised those of Mohammed Haris Nalapad and Omar Farook Nalapad, the sons of the MLA; Aqeeb Khan, the grandson of veteran Congress leader K Rahman Khan; and an alleged crypto hacker, Srikrishna Ramesh, alias Sriki, officials said.
The money laundering case stems from Karnataka Police FIRs and charge sheets filed in a 2017 case involving the hacking of national and international websites, theft of bitcoins, and the sale of these stolen virtual digital assets (VDAs) through crypto platforms by the alleged hacker Sriki and his associates.
Mohammed Haris Nalapad, Omar Farook Nalapad, and Aqeeb Khan are alleged to be beneficiaries of the proceeds of crime generated through this crypto-linked activity, officials added.
