From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore

Bangalore, Aug 24: The State Government has decided to convene a meeting of the Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) Board in the next 8 to 10 days invoking the powers vested with it in the backdrop of arrest of its Chairman G Somashekara Reddy, brother of mining baron and former minister G Janardhana Reddy, in the cash-for-bail scam.

Addressing presspersons here on Friday, Cooperation Minister B J Puttaswamy said the KMF Board meeting would be called to ensure smooth functioning of the Federation.

The Minister, however, declined to comment on the agenda for the upcoming board meeting.

The BJP MLA, Somashekara Reddy, younger brother of the arrested mining baron G Janardhana Reddy in the illegal mining scam, was arrested last month for his alleged involvement in bribing a judge to secure bail for his brother, who is in jail for almost a year.

Charges have been leveled against the KMF Chairman and he is to be proved guilty, the minister said pointing out that the law will take its own course.  Puttaswamy said that the government had powers under the Cooperative Act to convene KMF Board meeting and take decisions to ensure smooth functioning of the federation.

Under the KMF bye-laws, only its Chairman is authorised to convene the board meeting. If the Government wishes to convene the meeting, the special powers vested in the Government must be invoked.