Why BSY is not raided, asks Congress
Bengaluru, June 20: In a year-old Income Tax raid case, the court on economic offences on Wednesday served a notice to Water Resource Minister and Congress leader DK Shivakumar.
DK Shivakumar who holds Water Resources and Medical Education portfolios in the JDS-Congress coalition government, played a pivotal role in forming the coalition government. Keeping this in mind, the BJP has targeted him, Shivakumar alleged.
Former BJP leader Beluru Gopalkrishna who joined the Congress before Assembly election, strongly condemned the IT raid on DK Shivakumar and urged the IT Ministry to conduct raids on BJP state president BS Yeddyurappa and his close associate Shobha Karandlaje. Yeddyurappa has kept all his ill-gotten money in the house of Shobha. If it is true that IT department is not working under the pressure of BJP, let the agency conduct raids on the house of Shobha Karandlaje, he challenged.
Congress MP DK Suresh, former chief minister Siddaramaiah, Congress MLC CM Lingappa and other Congress leaders condemned the IT raids on Shivakumar.
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Lok Sabha adjourned till 12 noon after obituary tributes
New Delhi (PTI): The Lok Sabha was adjourned till 12 noon on Monday after paying tributes to departed members of the House, including two MPs who won the parliamentary elections this year.
As soon as the House met on the first day of the Winter Session, Speaker Om Birla mentioned the deaths of Vasantrao Balwantrao Chavan, who was elected to the House from Nanded constituency in Maharashtra and Sk Nurul Islam, who was elected from the Basirhat seat in West Bengal.
Birla also mentioned the deaths of three former members -- M. M. Lawrence (Kerala), M Parvathi (Andhra Pradesh) and Harischandra Devram Chavan (Maharashtra) -- and paid respects to them.
After the House remained silent for some time as a mark of respect to the departed leaders, the Speaker adjourned the House till 12 noon.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, DMK leader T R Baalu, and Congress' Gaurav Gogoi were among those present in the Lower House.
Ravindra Vasantrao Chavan, son of deceased MP Vasantrao Balwantrao Chavan, got elected as MP from Nanded in the just concluded by-elections.
