From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network

Mysuru, Aug 7: Asserting that truth will finally prevail, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has expressed confidence that the Governor Thawar Chand Gehlot will accept the reply given by the Congress government’s reply to the show cause notice issued by him on the MUDA scam.

Speaking to media persons in Mysuru on Wednesday, Siddaramaiah claimed that the government has acted completely in accordance with the law on the alleged MUDA scam and made it clear that he has not interfered in any manner in the distribution of MUDA sites.

“The sites were allotted to my wife in accordance with the law and rules in 2021 itself when BJP was in power in the State and there is no question of my exerting any pressure,” he clarified.

The Chief Minister explained that his wife had applied for alternative sites to MUDA in 2014 when he was the Chief Minister as her property had been ‘illegally acquired’ by MUDA. “I had not taken any action in the issue then,” he asserted.

He alleged that BJP and JDS have started hurling allegations against him as part of the strategy to destabilise the government. “The BJP-JDS are frustrated as their attempts to topple the government through Operation Kamala have not fructified. The two parties are unable to stomach the successful implementation of the ruling party’s assembly poll promise of guarantees,” he said.

Siddaramaiah claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah have been criticising the guarantees from the beginning with Modi himself declaring that it is ‘impossible to implement the guarantees as it will lead to bankruptcy’. Modi had gone to extent of stating that the guarantees will be discontinued even if implemented. “But we have proved Modi-Shah and BJP leaders wrong by successfully implementing the guarantees from more than one year,” he said.

He went on to lambast senior BJP leader and former chief minister B S Yediyurappa to retire from public life for being involved in a POSCO case at his old age. “It is shameful of being arraigned in the POSCO case at the ripe old age of 82. He has no moral right to speak against me and if he has any morality, must retire from public life,” he stated.

Siddaramaiah said Yediyurappa has over 20 cases against him and promised to divulge the details shortly.

The Chief Minister said Yediyurappa had taken bribe money through cheques when he was in power and had illegally denotified lands. “We have not done any such irregularities. The opposition parties are constantly levelling false charges,” he said.

“Truth will prevail finally. They (BJP-JDS) cannot turn falsehood into lies,” he added.