Former Karnataka Chief Minister fires back at Siddaramaiah

JDS leader and Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy attacked the Siddaramaiahled administration in Karnataka on Saturday citing a number of issues including corruption He claimed that six to seven state ministers would have to step down if he revealed the documents he had PTI reportedAccording to PTI he said that the Congress party was trying to fix him in a few cases when he began confronting the state government about alleged irregularities and discussing them in publicSiddaramaiah had accused previous BJP government of being 40 per cent commission govt and came to power Today his own party is saying after this government coming to power it is more than 40 per cent commission Mr Siddaramaiah did people give you power for this Kumaraswamy askedAddressing PTI reporters he said I have things with me Im not running away If I release the documents I have six to seven Ministers will have to resignI will release will not run away with fear no hit and runThe JDS state president questioned the CM on the Mysuru Urban Development Authority MUDA site allocation case stating If he Siddaramaiah had no role in the Mysuru MUDA scam then why are certain decisions being made by the cabinet hurriedly noting the governments withdrawal of the broad approval granted to the CBI to look into issues within the StateAccusing the government of introducing a new form of legal system in the state in which arrests are made in various situations merely because someone provides a complaint He said but in your Siddaramaiah case despite 48 hours after the court issued directions FIR was not registeredFollowing an order from a Special Court in Bengaluru to conduct an investigation against Siddaramaiah the Karnataka Lokayukta police filed a formal complaint FIR against him and other parties in the MUDA site allocation case on Friday PTI reportedKumaraswamy questioned How many officials have you promised Bengaluru Commissioner CID chief posts accusing the Chief Minister Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar and Home Minister G Parameshwara of manipulating the police department and officers in their attempts to end few people politically and what are you making them do for it he addedin the last one year before I joined hands with the BJP and from the day I started targeting your government how many meetings have you held at officials and ministers level Dont I have information as to what you are up to he questioned PTI reportedKumaraswamy on Friday had appeared before the Lokayukta police for questioning in connection with a land denotification caseAs per PTI he had voluntarily appeared before Lokayukta police the Union Minister claimed that false informations was shared among a section of the media that Lokayukta had served him a notice in order to divert the attention of the public from the CMs alleged case which is currently in the limelightGangenahalli denotification case is just for diversion nothing else they govt cant do anything to me further in the case I have signed a file but I have not ordered denotification I had said in the noting on the file I signed that after scrutinizing legally see what action can be taken to officials I have not said to denotify Let them govt do any probe Im not worried he saidHitting back at the CM for suggesting that the BJP and JDS were trying to destabilize his administration Kumaraswamy the former Chief Minister said voters gave SiddaramaiahCongress a fiveyear mandate but what are you doing I have pain that today no discussion is happening in the state on developmental issues or on issues concerning peopleWhat has got prominence in Karnataka today is the police department and some scam related issues he said to PTI