Yeddy Opens new Offensive against HDK
Bangalore, Mar 20 (DC): If the documents and information shared by Water Resources Minister Basavaraj Bommai and Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa’s political secretary are anything to go by, former chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy may well land up with egg on his face.
Earlier in the day, Mr Kumaraswamy released documents claiming that no sooner did the Yeddyurappa government award a contract for an irrigation project to Murudeshwar Power Corporation than the latter bought shares of two real estate companies owned by family members of Mr Yeddyurappa.
By Saturday evening, Bommai and B. J. Puttaswamy damned Mr Kumaraswamy by releasing documents that may make Mr Kumaraswamy squirm in his seat.
Bommai disclosed that the Upper Bhadra Project was cleared during April 2006 and it was Mr Kumaraswamy who cleared the proposal and the tender was finalised in 2007. The contract was award on May 5, 2008, almost a month before the BJP government came to power. He strongly refuted Mr Kumaraswamy’s charges that Mr Yeddyurappa had awarded the contract.
In another significant revelation, Mr Puttaswamy alleged that relatives of JD(S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy were benefited to the tune of several crores by purchasing and selling land denotified by Bangalore Development Authority.
Kumaraswamy had ordered denotification of 194.33 acres flouting all rules when he was chief minister and caused Rs 2,000 crore loss to the BDA, they charged.
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