Karnataka IT/BT Minister Priyank Kharge on Monday sought an investigation into an allegation by Anwar Manippady, the previous chairman of the Karnataka State Minorities Fee, that BJP state president and MLA B Y Vijayendra had supplied him Rs 150 crore to hush up his report on Waqf encroachments.
Addressing a information convention alongside the sidelines of the Legislature’s Winter Session, Kharge confirmed movies of Manippady making allegations in opposition to Vijayendra prior to now. This got here after the BJP state president objected to the costs levelled in opposition to him throughout a dialogue on Waqf properties held on Friday.
Kharge mentioned he would petition the house minister to research the matter the place Vijayendra had allegedly met Manippady to hush up his report on Waqf property encroachments by influential politicians to the tune of Rs 2.3 lakh crore. “Let there be an investigation over the problem… The Congress didn’t stage the allegations, however a BJP spokesperson who was appointed the top of the minority fee.”
Taking part in a video of Manippady shot a couple of years in the past, the place he had lashed out at Vijayendra for asking him to “quote an quantity”, Kharge mentioned BJP parliamentary board member and former chief minister B S Yediyurappa and Vijayendra had been accused by their very own partymen of conniving to cowl up the report.
On calls for by Vijayendra earlier within the day for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the problem, the minister requested why the highest BJP and RSS management had not probed the encroachments even after Manippady wrote to them about widespread irregularities.
Vijayendra, talking on the Meeting throughout Monday’s first half of the session, dismissed the allegations in opposition to him. “I problem Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to institute a CBI probe into allegations that I supplied Rs 150 crore (to Manippady). Together with it, let there be a CBI probe into the Manippady report and the Mysuru City Improvement Authority (MUDA) rip-off the place CM is an accused,” he mentioned. He additionally demanded Congress legislators to apologise for levelling baseless allegations in opposition to him.
The Manippady report was ordered in 2012-13, throughout the tenure of Jagadish Shettar because the chief minister of Karnataka. Although it was submitted to the state authorities in March 2016, it was rejected by the then Congress authorities after it was positioned earlier than the Cupboard.
Earlier within the day, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah defended his Cupboard colleague Kharge relating to the allegations in opposition to Vijayendra. On the previous minority fee chairman denying the allegations made by him after his remarks rocked the Meeting Friday, the CM mentioned, “Manippady had made these statements prior to now… If he now denies it, what may be executed?”
Residence Minister G Parameshwara advised reporters that Manippady was threatened to retract his statements in regards to the BJP president providing him bribes. “We are going to talk about the longer term plan of action and take a name,” he mentioned.
Although the BJP hoped to nook the ruling Congress over Waqf notices, the treasury benches had succeeded in taking the wind out of the Opposition sails after Kharge launched footage of Manippady levelling prices in opposition to Yediyurappa and Vijayendra throughout a dialogue on Friday. Quickly after, Siddaramaiah sought a CBI probe in opposition to Vijayendra, even because the BJP state president maintained that the costs had been baseless.
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