Karnataka BJP leaders on their way to protest MUDA scam arrested
The MUDA had allotted plots to Parvathi under a 50:50 ratio arrangement in lieu of 3.16 hectares of her land, where MUDA had developed a residential area. | Photo: PTI
Karnataka BJP president BY Vijayendra and several other party leaders were arrested here on Friday while they were on their way to Mysuru to protest against alleged fraudulent allotment of land to losers by the Mysuru Urban Development Authority. The plots were given to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s wife.
They were reportedly attending a protest rally in Mysuru, the Prime Minister’s home district, and besieging the office of the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) there.
Vijayendra and other BJP leaders were taken away in a bus on the Mysuru Road near Kengeri here while they were trying to resist police action and shouting slogans against the government.
“The Congress government is surrendering to oppression. The Siddaramaiah-led Congress government has no strength to stop our protest. In the coming days, our BJP workers will come from every corner of the state and lay siege to Mysuru and also Bengaluru. They stopped us today, but our protest will continue,” Vijayendra said.
Vijayendra announced the protest on Wednesday and said they are demanding that the sites be allocated to the poor by withdrawing the illegally provided sites. They also demanded a CBI probe into the ‘scam’ and Siddaramaiah’s resignation as the allegations are against the chief minister and his family.
It is alleged that compensatory sites were allotted to Siddaramaiah’s wife Parvathi in a posh area of Mysuru. The property value there was higher than the location of her land ‘acquired’ by MUDA.
The MUDA had allotted plots to Parvathi on a 50:50 basis, instead of 3.16 hectares of her land, on which the MUDA had developed a residential area.
The controversial plan calls for 50 percent of the developed land to be allocated to the person who loses possession, instead of undeveloped land acquired for the purpose of planning.
Siddaramaiah denied the allegations and claimed on Thursday that he was being unnecessarily targeted in the case.
Siddarmaiaah alleged that a conspiracy was hatched against him out of sheer spite as he belongs to a backward class community and has become Chief Minister for the second time. He said that he is not afraid of such moves by the BJP.
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First print: Jul 12, 2024 | 12:49 PM IST