I will Expose Oppn Misdeeds through Ads, says BSY
Shimoga, Nov 26 (PTI): Under attack by opposition parties for alleged nepotism in land allotment made, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today said he would launch an advertisement blitzkrieg to expose ''misdeeds'' of his detractors, particularly JD(S) chief H D Deve Gowda and his sons.
"From tomorrow, I will publish all misdeeds, irregularities and frauds committed by opposition parties, particularly by Deve Gowda and his sons by way of advertisements in all papers utilising money from the party and my own", Yeddyurappa told reporters at his home town Shikaripura near here.
An agitated Yeddyurappa, who managed to prevail over BJP high command to let him continue in office after coming close to losing the job over the alleged land scams, hit out at Gowda and his sons saying "a Nobel Prize should be awarded to Gowda family for their unlimited frauds and irregularities".
"I will not rest till I expose Gowda and his sons' misdeeds and bring it to the notice of people even during the coming Zilla and Taluk Panchayat elections", he said.
Gowda's son and former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy had released a series of documents in support of his allegations against Yeddyurappa and his sons in land scams and money transactions.
Yeddyurappa alleged Kumaraswamy and his brother H D Revanna, a former minister, had denotified several acres of land in Ramnagara and in Holenarsipur and had transferred these to their relatives during JD(S) rule.
He accused Kumaraswamy of having acquired several properties in benami names and vowed to bring all of them into public domain shortly.
Yeddyurappa maintained the allegations levelled against him and his family by Congress and JD(S) were "totally false and malicious".
He refused to react to Lokayukta Santosh Hegde's statement taking a swipe at his government for ordering the judicial probe into land denotification without securing his consent.
JD(S) to approach Central agencies for probe into BJP govt scams
Bangalore, Nov 26 (PTI): Refusing to cooperate with the judicial inquiry ordered by the state government into alleged land scams, JD(S) today said it planned to approach Central agencies for a probe into scams faced by Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa.
The party will seek opinion from legal experts on the future course of action it needed to take to fight scandals and on ways to seek inquiry from Central agencies, Karnataka unit JD(S) President H D Kumaraswamy told reporters here.
Kumaraswamy had levelled a series of allegations of irregularities in land denotification.
He, however, did not name the Central agencies the party wanted to petition against the Yeddyurappa Government.
"Yeddyurappa might have been successful in silencing his party high command, but he cannot hush up the scams," Kumaraswamy, who had headed the JD(S)-BJP coalition in 2006, said.
The JD(S) leader said he would lead a rath yatra from Bidar to Chamarajnagar from December 1 as part of agitations against the government.
The ratha yatra would highlight "false promises" made by Yeddyurappa on development works, he said.
Kumaraswamy reiterated that his party would not cooperate with the judicial probe as it had already filed a complaint with Lokayukta on the issue.
He denied allegations made by some Lingayat swamis that his father and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda was against Lingayat community and had not destabilised any government headed by community leader, including late J H Patel or S R Bommai.