Daijiworld Media Network - Mysuru (SP)

Mysuru, Oct 13: Former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, accused leader of the opposition in the assembly, Siddaramaiah, of being responsible e for the income tax (IT) raids on the residences of people close to Yediyurappa.

He was speaking to media persons after paying obeisance to the presiding deity at Goddess Chamundeshwari temple here on Tuesday October 12.

Kumaraswamy said that Siddaramaiah had met Yediyurappa and the raid was a result of this meeting. "Siddaramaiah will go to any extent to procure power. He met Yediyurappa as part of this exercise. The central government got information about the meeting between these two leaders. The IT raid was a tactic employed by the centre by which the leaders have tried to keep Yediyurappa under check. This is definitely backed by political reasons," he asserted.

Meanwhile, MLA and political secretary to the CM, M P Renukacharya, termed H D Kumaraswamy, former chief minister and leader of the JD(S) legislature party, who has been making allegations about the IT raids, as a lottery CM. He angrily reacted to the allegations being made by Kumaraswamy, duly claiming that Yediyurappa has nothing to do with these raids.

Addressing a press meet at the Vikasa Soudha here, he said that IT is an independent body. He stressed that the raids were not politically motivated and that Kumaraswamy was not right in making baseless comments about these raids.