HDK budget does not have sanctity: BSY
BJP Executive Committee meeting
Bengaluru, June 29: BJP state president BS Yeddyurappa said that the budget to be presented by Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy would not have any sanctity.
Inaugurating the party Executive Committee meeting at the Palace Ground in the city on Friday, Yeddyurappa said that just getting 38 seats in the Assembly election, the JDS has come to power by chance. In the history of the country, a political party which got the third place in the election would be presenting the Budget which is a tragedy. Moreover, Coordination Committee Chairman and Congress Legislative Party chairman Siddaramaiah himself had opposed the budget, he said.
Yeddyurappa said that while speaking about the failures of the coalition government in the state, the party leaders should be very careful. He would not tolerate any situation which embarrasses the party. “The coalition government will not complete five years term. Instead of gaining the advantage of the situation, we have to wait patiently for the people’s mandate. Already, both the parties have been involving in mudslinging activity. We should not destabilize the government”, he said.
Though the people have given more seats, the party did not get the complete majority to form the government. The party candidates were defeated within the margin of 2000-3000 votes in over 15 constituencies. Now, the reasons for such defeats should be introspected. For the first time, the Supreme Court had directed a government to prove its majority in the Floor within 24 hours. If there was a time, many MLAs of the Congress and JDS were ready to come to BJP. But the party workers should not be disheartened, he said.
BJP state incharge Muralidhar Rao said that though the people have not given the majority, they have given the mandate to the party. Keeping the programmes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it was planned to win at least 25 seats in the Lok Sabha election. The Congress-JDS coalition government would not complete five years. The BJP would get good time, he said.
Union Ministers Ananth Kumar and Ramesh Jigajinagi, BJP leaders R Ashok, Jagadeesh Shettar, Govind Karajola, Shobha Karandlaje, Sriramulu and others were present.
DK Shivakumar demanding commission: BSY
Yeddyurappa said that Water Resource Minister DK Shivakumar was putting pressure on the contractors for commission to clear the bills of the irrigation projects saying that he was not responsible for the previous government and the commission. But now he was the minister and wanted commission, he said.
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Three company directors held in Rs 100-crore investment fraud in Kochi
Kochi (Kerala) (PTI): Police on Sunday arrested three directors of a firm accused of cheating hundreds of investors of over Rs 100 crore through a fake investment scheme linked to agricultural tourism here, officials said.
The accused were identified as Muraleedharan, Ashik Murali and Akhil Murali, all natives of Thrissur.
The arrests were made by the Kalamassery police in connection with a fraud involving ATCOS (Agri Tourism Cooperative Society), a firm headquartered at Pathadipalam here.
Police said the company had promised high returns by collecting investments from the public in the agricultural tourism sector, but allegedly cheated hundreds of people and fled with the money.
ATCOS was registered under the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act and operated 13 branches across various districts in Kerala, besides a branch in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, officials said.
When investors failed to receive their promised returns or the invested amount, complaints were filed with the police.
Officials said around 54 cases have been registered against the firm in 32 police stations across the state, including 29 cases at the Kalamassery police station alone.
Following instructions from Kochi City Police Commissioner K S Mahesh Kumar, a special investigation team was formed under the supervision of Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Shehensha and Thrikkakara ACP Manoj Kumar.
The team traced the accused to an apartment in Amala Nagar in Thrissur, where they had been hiding after secretly renting the flat, officials said.
The bank accounts of the accused have been frozen, and steps have been initiated to trace their assets, officials said.
Police also conducted a raid at the company’s office at Pathadipalam and seized several documents related to the case.
The accused were produced before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Kalamassery, which remanded them to judicial custody and sent them to Kakkanad jail.
Police said they would seek the custody of the accused for further interrogation as the investigation continues.
