Let CBI probe my power scam': BS Yeddyurappa to Karnataka CM

Hubballi: State BJP president B.S. Yeddyurappa on Saturday challenged  Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to either rope in the CBI to investigate the power purchase deals struck during  his stint in power in the state or order a judicial probe into them.

 Speaking to reporters here, he claimed that Energy Minister, D K Shivakumar was only charging BJP leaders with receiving kickbacks in these deal to cover up  the many scandals of the state government. 

“Why have Congress leaders raked up the so- called power scam only when the elections are approaching?” he asked, declaring that he was open to a thorough discussion on the issue in the winter session of the state legislature. 

Once again alleging that  Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was looting the state exchequer by his “corrupt” deals even as the term of his government was nearing completion, he claimed the Congress was  targeting BJP leaders merely to deflect attention from this. 

Condemning Mr Siddaramaiah’s decision to stand by Minister K J George in the Dy SP Ganapathi case, he said the government should ask him to  resign immediately without waiting for the CBI to complete its investigation into it. 

Mr Yeddyurappa revealed that senior leaders, Jagadish Shettar , Prahlad  Joshi and he would lead a BJP delegation to meet Goa Chief Minister , Manohar Parrikar and also Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the next 20 days to resolve the Kalasa Banduri dispute between the two states. “We would like to see  the issue resolved through an out-of-the-court settlement. The people here have been fighting for the project for a long time. But they have to understand that forming the tribunal was the gift of the UPA government to the people of North Karnataka,” he added with sarcasm, however, promising that his party would do everything possible to ensure  the state received the 7.50 tmcft water it was entitled to from the Mahadayi river.