BJP MLAs under I-T scanner in K’taka

Oct 26, 2010 - Age Correspondent |

Bengaluru

In an unprecedented move, the income tax department (investigation wing) on Monday morning raided the house and premises of a Cabinet minister and other prominent BJP legislators for reportedly possessing unaccounted wealth in Bellary, Hospet and Bengaluru. In a day-long operation backed with the armed police support, the IT sleuths raided the house and premises of health minister B. Sriramalu besides 60 other places, including the two rooms in the legislators home used by these politicians.

Premises of legislators — B. Nagendra and Suresh Babu, tourism minister Janardhan Reddy’s long time lawyer and trusted lieutenant Ragahavacharlu, Swastik Nagaraj and Karapudi Mahesh — close confidantes of the Reddy brothers were also searched.
It is reliably learnt that the tax officials conducted simultaneous raids at the premises of these legislators and their mining associates in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu with the help of their counterparts in these states, who issued the search warrants. Even as the IT department refused to part with any information regarding the raids, well-placed sources said that the intelligence wing of the department, which was keeping a vigil on the massive mining irregularities in the state, reportedly tipped off the investigation wing.
While sources in the department said the raids were conducted purely on the mining irregularities. The searches have come at a time when the BJP is facing allegations of horse-trading over “Operation Kamal” to allegedly woo Opposition MLAs.

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JD(S) seeks dismissal of Yeddy govt
AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi

Oct. 25: The JD(S) supremo and former Prime Minister Deve Gowda on Monday demanded the dismissal of the Yeddurappa-led BJP government in Karnataka saying the state has witnessed a new low in politics ever since it came to power. He warned the Centre that he will not hesitate to launch a statewide agitation to get his demand met.
Addressing a press conference in the capital on Monday, Mr Gowda said that the people of Karnataka would suffer their darkest Diwali this year as the state has reached the depths of political corruption.

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