What GT Deve Gowda says on Cong-JDS alliance for Lok Sabha election?
Mysuru, May 29: Chamundeshwari constituency MLA G T Deve Gowda said that the party leadership would decide whether the JDS would require alliance with the Congress or not for the forthcoming Lok Sabha election after completing one year of JDS-Congress coalition government in the state.
Speaking to reporters here on Tuesday, he said that it was a special election. The voters have given five seats to JDS in Mysuru city and district, he added thanking the voters.
In order to keep the communal forces away from the power and for the development of the state, the JDS has inevitably joined hands with the Congress. Both JDS and Congress are secular parties. After the coalition government completing one year, the party leaders would decided whether to go with the Congress or not for LS poll, he said.
He has the confidence that Kumaraswamy would complete five years as the Chief Minister. But some people have been saying that he is a short-term CM. UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, AICC president Rahul Gandhi, former prime minister HD Deve Gowda and Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy have taken a decision. So, if some others spoke about the Chief Minister’s tenure, there is no need to read much about it, he said.
Only media has been showing that the Congress leaders have conditions on expanding the cabinet. But the Congress leaders have extended unconditional support to the JDS. But JDS leaders have decided to take Congress leaders into the cabinet. Cabinet expansion was delayed because it should not spoil the purpose of the coalition government. It was also delayed because of Rahul Gandhi’s foreign tour, he said.
CM Kumaraswamy has already met Congress senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and discussed on whom to be taken for the cabinet. It would be finalized in a couple of days. It is said that JDS is being given 12 portfolios. But the party has 37 MLAs and all of them are aspirants of the minister posts. But they would abide by the party decision, he said.
Farmers loan waiver
It is sure that CM Kumaraswamy would waive off the farmers loan. Before election, Kumaraswamy has announced that he would write off the farmers loan if JDS came to power. But the JDS did not get the majority due to which it is delayed. Because it is a coalition government, Kumaraswamy could not take unilateral decision on this issue. The CM has already discussed the issue with the officials concerned and got information and even made strategies. Though Kumaraswamy has promised of taking a decision within a week, the BJP leaders have called for Karnataka bandh and failed, he said.
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Gujarat man held for impersonating govt official, duping people with forged letters
Ahmedabad (PTI): The Ahmedabad police have arrested a 29-year-old man who allegedly posed as a senior revenue official and used fake letters claiming to be from various government departments to cheat people, an official said on Sunday.
Mehul Shah, an engineer who manages two schools at Vankaner in Gujarat’s Morbi district, is accused of making lakhs of rupees with bogus documents and false claims, said inspector (crime branch) JK Makwana.
Shah had forged an appointment letter from the Ahmedabad district education officer (DEO) to offer a computer operator’s job in a government office to a complainant’s son. He also introduced himself as a trustee of a school and did not pay a man Rs 7 lakh due to him over the painting of a school building, the official said.
“Despite holding no official position in the state or central government, he used fake work permits and NOCs to cheat people of lakhs of rupees,” the police official said.
One complainant alleged that Shah identified himself as a top revenue department official and produced a fake letter from the chairman of the “department of science and research development” to make him install a siren and curtain in a hired vehicle but did not pay for the job, he said.
Bogus letters claiming to be from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ahmedabad DEO were used by the accused to cheat the complainants, the police official said.
Police have recovered from his possession fake identity cards and letters with headings like “bharat gaurav ratna shri samman council”, “chairman of department of science and research development”, “health and family welfare department”, and “road and building department”.
“The FIR is based on complaints by three victims. We appeal to the people to come forward and submit their complaints if they have been cheated by Shah in any way,” Makwana said.
