“The people of Karnataka have not given the BJP enough majority to come to power on its own. So far, the BJP has come to power by conducting Operation Kamala unethically. In the last Assembly elections, the people of the state gave our party a strength of 136 seats without giving any chance to Operation Kamala,” he said.
“Frustrated by this, the BJP and JDS leaders have taken advantage of Raj Bhavan and made false allegations against me to disturb our government,” he alleged. He claimed that all MLAs, leaders, and Congress workers supported him and pushed him to continue fighting for the bill.
“Throughout my 40 years of political life, I have faced such revenge and conspiracy politics and I have been winning with the strength of the blessings and wishes of the people of the state. I am confident that I will win this fight with the strength of people’s blessings,” he said. “The same leaders who are asking for my resignation are the same ones who opposed the schemes that I implemented for the poor and the oppressed of the state,” he further said.
The Karnataka High Court today dismissed Siddaramaiah’s petition to rescind Governor Thawar Chand Gehlot’s clearance for an investigation into the chief minister’s role in the alleged MUDA land scam. In its conclusion, the High Court stated that the Governor can make independent decisions if exceptional circumstances arise and that his order does not suffer from non-application of mind.
The bench stressed that the facts described in the plea required further investigation before it could be dismissed. In July, the Governor approved a probe into Siddaramaiah in response to accusations from three activists: TJ Abraham, Snehamai Krishna, and Pradeep Kumar SP. The lawsuit involves claims that Siddaramaiah’s wife, BM Parvathi, was given compensation sites in an upmarket region of Mysuru with a higher property worth than the location of her land, which had been acquired by MUDA.
MUDA had allotted plots to Parvathi under a 50:50 ratio program in exchange for 3.16 acres of her land, where MUDA created a residential layout. Siddaramaiah has refuted the claims against him in the land fraud case, while the BJP has sought his resignation.