Complaint to ACB against BSY, Sriramulu for inducing MLAs
Bengaluru, May 24: KPCC Legal Cell has lodged a complaint against six persons of the BJP including party state president BS Yeddyurappa and MLA B Sriramulu for inducing the MLAs to support the BJP during the floor test in the Assembly.
On Thursday, KPCC Legal Cell general secretary Surya Mukund Raj who visited the ACP head office on Race Course Road in the city, lodged the written complaint against Yeddyurappa, Sriramulu, MLC BJ Puttaswamy, Yeddyurappa’s son Vijayendra, Janardhana Reddy and BJP incharge Muralidhar Rao alleging that they have induced the Congress MLAs during the floor test. Yeddyurappa has taken oath as the Chief Minister on May 17. But as the BJP has no sufficient number of MLAs to prove the majority, the BJP leaders have tried to ‘purchase’ the MLAs by luring them. The KPCC Legal Cell has all documents related to the discussion of BJP leaders with the Congress MLAs. So, the ACB should take this issue seriously and take action against them, he demanded.
The BJP has lured the MLAs of money and power to support it during floor test. The Congress has the voice records of the leaders who spoke to its MLAs. The ACB should consider this charge seriously and register FIR against them under Anti-Corruption Act 1998 and investigate the issue, he demanded.
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Ex-CJI Chandrachud removed fear of law from political defectors, claims Sanjay Raut
Mumbai (PTI): Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday slammed former Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, alleging that he had removed the fear of the law from politicians who defected from parties in Maharashtra.
Raut claimed that by not deciding on the disqualification petitions, Chandrachud kept doors and windows open for defections.
The Shiv Sena (UBT) leader's statement comes after his party faced a severe drubbing in the state assembly elections, as it managed to clinch only 20 out of 95 seats it contested as part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA).
The performance of the party's alliance partners was no better, with the Congress winning only 16 out of 101 seats and NCP (SP) getting only 10 out of 86 seats it contested.
Talking to reporters, Raut alleged, "He (Chandrachud) has removed the fear of the law from defectors. His name will be written in black letters in history."
Following the split in the undivided Shiv Sena in 2022, the party's faction headed by Uddhav Thackeray filed petitions in the Supreme Court on the disqualification of party MLAs who defected along with Eknath Shinde. The apex court put the onus on the assembly Speaker to decide on the disqualification petitions, which he did earlier this year, declaring the Sena bloc led by Shinde as the “real political party”.
Raut alleged that the results of the assembly election were pre-decided. If the then CJI had decided on the disqualification petitions on time, the outcome would have been different.
"We are sad but not disappointed. We will not leave the fight incomplete. Division of votes was also a factor, and the RSS played an important role in the election. The poisonous campaign impacted us negatively," he said.
He said the swearing-in ceremony for the new government should be held in neighbouring Gujarat.
Meanwhile, in his weekly column "Rokhthok" in the party mouthpiece "Saamana", the Shiv Sena (UBT) leader claimed that it was time to offer condolences to the Election Commission, which turned a blind eye to the use of money power.
"The courts have been in the ICU for a long time," he alleged.
