Within the wake of an ongoing investigation towards Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah over alleged irregularities within the grant of land, Mysuru City Improvement Authority (MUDA) chairman Okay Marigowda resigned Wednesday.
In his resignation letter to the City Improvement Division, Marigowda mentioned that it was his private determination to resign and cited well being causes.
Later whereas talking to reporters, Marigowda mentioned he was requested by Siddaramaiah to resign from the submit. “I’m not below any strain. I’m resigning as a consequence of well being causes. That is my private determination. I’ve suffered a stroke twice and as a consequence of well being considerations I put in my papers,” he mentioned.
A detailed aide of Siddaramaiah, he was appointed as MUDA chairman after the Congress got here to energy within the state. His function in allegations towards Siddaramaiah had come below scanner following the MUDA row, with a number of Congress leaders learnt to have demanded his resignation over the problem.
Sources mentioned the alleged MUDA rip-off — which entails irregularities within the allocation of alternate websites to a number of people by dishonest true beneficiaries— got here to gentle after Marigowda wrote a letter to former MUDA commissioner G T Dinesh Kumar. The letter was attributed to a feud between Marigowda and one other Congress chief from Mysuru over the allocation of web sites.
Marigowda, who highlighted his four-decade-long affiliation with Siddaramaiah after his resignation, had claimed innocence over your entire episode just lately after his fallout with the CM grew to become public.
Whereas the alleged MUDA rip-off entails irregularities within the allocation of a number of hundred websites, the main target has remained on the alternate websites allotted to Siddaramaiah’s spouse B Parvathi. She was granted the alternate websites in 2021 after MUDA acquired a three-acre-16-gunta land owned by her with out finishing up the land acquisition course of.
