No permission for BJP-JD(S) foot march, says ruling Congress in Karnataka

The Karnataka police will not grant permission to the planned BJPJDS foot march Home Minister G Parameshwara declared on Monday as the ruling Congress said the oppositions move seeking to highlight alleged scams and put the government on the mat would be countered politicallyBJP State President B Y Vijayendra asserted that the weeklong foot march from here to Mysuru from August 3 demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah over the alleged scam in allotment of sites to land losers by Mysuru Urban Development Authority MUDA including to his wife Parvathi and financial irregularities in a staterun corporations cannot be suppressedHitting back at the opposition Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the ruling Congress will counter politically oppositions foot marchHome Minister G Parameshwara said the police will not give permission for the foot march officially but will not stop them eitherSpeaking to reporters here Parameshwara said We will not give permission for the padayatre foot march let them BJPJDS do it we wont say no but the police department will not officially give any permission Let them protest There will be several legal matters so we dont give permission Even we were not given when we held the padayatre When BJP was in power We did it too without permission We wont stop themwe will facilitate and ensure no problem happens to them he saidAsked whether the Congress is making any plans to counter the oppositions foot march Parameshwara said the state president D K Shivakumar is preparing a strategyWe will have to counter it They are doing politics so we too will have to do politics We will do it from the party not by using the government he saidMeanwhile asserting that their struggle and foot march cannot be suppressed Vijayendra speaking at a preparatory meeting here for the foot march said his party workers will not shy away from the protest because of barren threats of Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister ShivakumarSpeaking to reporters in Mysuru Siddaramaiah said What is there in MUDA to put a black spot on me I have already formed a judicial commission to probe into it Have they opposition ever formed a judicial commission during their tenure There is no fault on my part still as there should be no suspicion in the minds of the people a judicial commission has been formed the Chief Minister saidHe charged the BJP with being an expert in blackmailing lying and making lies the truth and also sought to attack the JDS headed by former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda which joined the NDA last yearWhat ideology do they BJP have They are against social justice secularism democracy and the constitution On the other hand JDS Kumaraswamy speaks so much in 1984 he had taken a site and possession certificate and then applied for an alternative site How many sites Deve Gowda had got for his family members in the past It is alleged that compensatory sites were allotted to Siddaramaiahs wife in an upmarket area in Mysuru which had higher property value as compared to the location of her land which had been acquired by the MUDAThe MUDA had allotted plots to Parvathi under a 5050 ratio scheme in lieu of 316 acres of her land where MUDA developed a residential layoutUnder the controversial scheme MUDA allotted 50 per cent of developed land to the land losers in lieu of undeveloped land acquired from them for forming residential layoutsBJP leaders have claimed that the MUDA scam is of the magnitude of Rs 4000 crore to Rs 5000 croreThe government on July 14 constituted a single member inquiry commission under former High Court Judge Justice P N Desai to probe the chargesAddressing party leaders officebearers and workers at the preparatory meeting Vijayendra stated that the oppositions struggle in favour of SCST communities will continue across the stateThey Congress have looted the money of the scheduled communities They have indulged in corruption worth thousands of crores If we do not fight against them even God will not forgive us he saidOn denial of the police permission to the march Vijayendra said During COVID they Congress did Mekedatu padayatre Im unable to understand why this government and the Chief Minister are worried This government doesnt have the strength to suppress our struggle he said People are angry about this government and its scams If they govt tries to suppress it it will reach some level that is unimaginable This government cannot stop us Regarding the alleged financial irregularities in the staterun Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation Ltd Siddaramaiah while admitting that there is a scam claimed that false allegations are also being made by the opposition against his governmentIt is true that there is a scam but not Rs 187 crore it is Rs 8463 crore Who has done it for that SIT probe is on Also CBI and ED are also probing he said Didnt corruption take place during their BJP tenure I have listed 21 scams during their period inquiry is on in 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