Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Sep 10: State minister for medical education and water resources, D K Shivakumar, rushed to New Delhi and held talks with senior advocates. He reached New Delhi on Sunday evening amid rumours that enforcement directorate officials are planning to arrest him. He met Supreme Court advocates and Congress leaders, Kapil Sibal, and Abhishek Manu Singhvi, sources said.

Shivakumar would be meeting senior party leaders, Ahmed Patel and others, and provide them details of the cases he has been facing. As All India Congress Committee president, Rahul Gandhi, is on pilgrimage to Manasa Sarovar, Shivakumar will not be able to meet him.

When media persons met the minister at the entrance to his house at Sadashiva Nagar here on Sunday morning, Shivakumar put up a brave face, asserting that he had done nothing wrong and everything is legal. He said that he will not be trapped in this political conspiracy. However, some sources said he is trying to obtain anticipatory bail.

Shivakumar said he will not run away like a thief, and that for money recovered in the houses of his friends, income tax had been paid. "I am not involved with illegal money transfer, and I have not received any notice from enforcement directorate. I do not have property in foreign countries, but have three houses in New Delhi, but no money was found in these houses," he claimed.

Shivakumar's brother and MP, D K Suresh, had stated that an attempt would be made to meet the Prime Minister and bring to his notice the misuse of central investigation agencies by his party leaders. Shivakumar also wants to personally meet the Prime Minister, it is learnt. On Monday, there is a programme of the chief minister meeting the Prime Minister on Monday relating to Kodagu devastation, and Shivakumar will be a part of the delegation.

Suresh said that BJP leaders cannot harm him and his brother, and that people of Ramanagara are their high command. "We have respect for Yeddyurappa but the former chief minister should say wherefrom the letter we got emanated," he added.