Karnataka: BJP counters Congress with chargesheet
BJP has the names of Congress MLAs and ministers in its chargesheet
Bengaluru: If the Congress party had trained its guns on deputy chief minister R. Ashok in its chargesheet released on Tuesday, the BJP has the names of Congress MLAs and ministers in its chargesheet.
On Tuesday, the Congress had released a chargesheet and accused the BJP of swindling thousands of crores. A day after this, the BJP came out with an almost similar chargesheet making allegations against former CM S.M. Krishna, minister Dinesh Gundu Rao, MLAs N.A. Haris and Munirathna Naidu.
Addressing a press conference here, party spokespersons Suresh Kumar and Ashwath Narayana first dismissed the allegations levelled against the BJP. “It is an attempt to deceive the public by regurgitating a bundle of lies. The Congress is in power for over two years. But, it did not investigate any of the scams. When the elections came, it suddenly came appeared before the public and started making allegations,” Mr Kumar said.
The fact that party senior leaders like S.M. Krishna, C.K. Jaffer Sharief and Nandan Nilekani stayed away from the campaign showed the plight of the Congress party. “The Congress manifesto is a disappointment and is boring. To make up for the loss, the leaders came out with a vision document which is old wine in a new bottle. The government appointed an IAS officer to manage garbage disposal. If it had evidence on a scam, he should have given the report by now. The allegations on a Rs 9,000 crore scam are false. Why did the government not order a probe?” they asked.
Making a fresh set of allegations against the Congress, the BJP claimed that the Raja Kaluve scam happened during former CM S.M. Krishna’s time. Property worth Rs 500 crore which was meant for the tuberculosis hospital was handed over to Congress leader K.C. Kondaiah.
In Langford town, Divyashree chambers was handed over on 50:50 basis initially and finally it was handed over to Congman Shamaraju. Party MLA N.A. Haris and Govindaraju occupied area worth Rs 750 crore on Tank Bund Road, party MLA, R.V. Devraj occupied a property worth Rs 150 crore. In food minister Dinesh Gundurao’s constituency, the same work was taken under MLA’s Local Area development fund and special area development.
The government was aware of minister Roshan Baig’s encroachment of government land adjacent to the KPCC office. A FIR has already been filed. The scam in the OFC cable contract caused losses worth thousands of crores of rupees to BBMP, the BJP alleged.