Scam-tainted Yeddy Must Resign or No Session, says HDK
From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore
Bangalore, Jan 9: Corruption and scam-tainted Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has lost the moral right to continue in power and will not be allowed to carry on with the ongoing Karnataka Legislature session if he does not resign, declared state JD(S) chief and former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy.
Addressing reporters in Ramanagaram, the JD(S) leader said his party will join hands with the Congress party in its campaign for the ouster of the scam-tainted Yeddyurappa and asserted that the two parties would stall proceedings in both houses of state legislature when they reassemble after the weekend recess on Monday.
Pointing out that the BJP has stalled proceedings in parliament for over a month targtetting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh despite his clean image and reputation for integrity, honesty and probity in public life over the 2G Spectrum scam even after DMK’s A Raja had resigned as the Communications minister and the Supreme Court was seized of the matter, Kumaraswamy said the saffron party cannot have double standards in respect of the series of land scams and charges of nepotism, favouritism and irregularities against Yeddyurappa with documentary evidence.
The BJP high command, which directed the Chief Minister to step down following the charges, had shamelessly allowed him to continue, Kumaraswamy said pointing out that Yeddyurappa had proved himself to be the most corrupt chief minister in Karnataka.
The JD(S) leader said the Opposition parties would joint hands and would not allow the Government to hold the Legislature session peacefully till the Chief Minister submitted his resignation.
Blaming the Chief Minister for continuation of illegal mining in Bellary by the Reddy brothers, the JD(S) leader said the BJP Government would fall in another month and mid-term assembly election in the state was inevitable.
The Opposition’s allegations against the government were justified following the Central Empowered Committee appointed by the Supreme Court has recommended cancellation of mining lease to firms owned by the all powerful Bellary mining lords -- Ministers G Janardhan Reddy and G Karunakar Reddy – the Obulapuram Mining Company to break various environmental laws in mining operations, he said.
The Chief Minister has neglected the findings of the CEC report and has been ruling the State according to his whims and fancies, he alleged and demanded his resignation for supporting illegal mining by the his Cabinet colleagues.
Replying to a question on whether the party would admit former MLA C P Yogeshwar of the BJP, Kumaraswamy said the people of the Ramangaram district had voted the JD(S) in the just concluded TP and ZP elections, which was their indirect approval for inducting him into the party.
''It is the responsibility of the party to respect such sentiments of the people of the district,’’ he said explaining that Yogeshwar had proved his opposition to the anti-people and corrupt actions of Yeddyurappa.
The former Chief Minister visited a house at Ammalli Doddi in Channapatna taluk in the district where four members of a farming family committed suicide and last month and handed over a compensation of Rs 50,000 to the kin and kith of the deceased family.