Karnataka BJP takes out march to Raj Bhavan, complains to Governor about MUDA scam
Bengaluru, Jul 25: The BJP legislators in Karnataka on Thursday took out a march to Raj Bhavan and met Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot to complain about the alleged alternative site scam in the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA).
They also said that the ruling Congress did not allow them to raise the issue in both the Houses.
After the Karnataka legislature session was adjourned sine die, cutting it short by a day, the legislators led by the Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Assembly R Ashoka and BJP State president B Y Vijayendra took out a march to Raj Bhavan with placards and posters.
The BJP leaders met Gehlot and handed to him a memorandum giving details of the scam.
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Later addressing reporters, Ashoka alleged that the ruling Congress did not allow them to speak about the MUDA scam in which Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was directly involved.
It is now known to the world that this government is involved in corruption. Never in the history of Karnataka, the ruling party faced such a shame. Scams after scams came to the fore, Ashoka said.
The BJP leader said because of the agitation by the BJP and JD(S) in connection with the Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki ST Development Corporation worth Rs 187 crore, Congress MLA B Nagendra resigned as a minister and is now in jail.
Several officers are also in jail while one more MLA is set to go to jail, he claimed.
About the MUDA scam, Ashoka said when Siddaramaiah was the Deputy Chief Minister in the J H Patel government in the 1990s, the scam took place.
"Siddaramaiah and his supporters have gobbled up over one lakh square feet of land in the MUDA scam under the 50:50 scheme," he alleged.
"The chief minister who had taken an oath of upholding the Constitutional values in the presence of the Governor, is violating the Constitution. I have documents to show that Siddaramaiah was directly involved in it," he said.
The LoP alleged that the BJP legislators were denied permission to raise the issue in both the Houses of the Karnataka legislature.
He said the BJP and its ally JD(S) had sought the resignation of the chief minister.
"When 86,000 people were in the queue for MUDA plots, 14 plots were given to Siddaramaiah’s family," he alleged.
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US VP JD Vance says Lebanon not part of ceasefire, calls it ‘misunderstanding’
Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.
His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.
Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.
“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.
