Land storm: Minister No. 12 bites dust

Jun 24, 2012 |

Bengaluru

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The BJP government suffered its biggest embarrassment since the resignation of former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa with law minister S. Suresh Kumar too putting in his papers on Saturday after charges surfaced that he secured a site under the Chief Minister’s discretionary quota by suppressing facts.

“I’ve resigned to spare the party and government from embarrassment. I am ready to face any inquiry,” he told the media after handing over his resignation to Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda. But the CM rejected the resignation saying, “There is no procedural fault on the part of Suresh Kumar. I’ll convince him to withdraw his resignation.”

The minister quit after RTI activist S Bhaskaran brought to light wrongdoing by the minister, including the fact that Mr Suresh Kumar suppressed details that his mother and daughter owned sites in Nelamangala. But the minister maintained that his mother and daughter were allotted sites by a housing cooperative society much after he obtained the BDA site.

Mr Suresh Kumar said his mother, a retired teacher, sold her house on railway parallel road and two sites in Nelamangala to construct their house in Basaveshwar Nagar. The BDA allotted an alternative site in RMV II stage after a site sanctioned by then CM Yeddyurappa in Nagarabhavi was subsequently denotified. Asked why did he take the decision to resign if he had not committed any blunder, Mr Suresh Kumar said he did not want to embarass the party and the CM.

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