Siddaramaiah deeply involved in MUDA 'scam', should resign immediately: BJP

Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) chairman K Marigowda resigned from his post amid the row over alleged irregularities in allotment of sites to Siddaramaiah's wife Parvathi B M.

New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday said that resignation of MUDA chairman K Marigowda again made it clear that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was involved in the site allotment scam and demanded his resignation immediately.

"MUDA chairman has tendered his resignation... I call upon Siddaramaiah that if you have the slightest morality left, you should step down immediately. You should not wait for today's sunset," BJP national spokesperson and MP Sambit Patra said at a press conference here.

He said Marigowda's resignation and Siddaramaiah's wife "offering" to return the MUDA sites allocated to her made it clear that the chief minister is "deeply involved in the scam from head to toe. There is no doubt about it," Patra said.

“Sonia ji (former Congress president) must have provided tuition (to Siddaramaiah), (Robert) Vadra must have assisted him in revising the lessons and Rahul Gandhi must have got it implemented…Gandhi family knows well how to grab the country’s land,” Patra said.

“Despite this we have to hold a press conference to ask him (Siddaramaiah) to leave the throne. This kind of shamelessness is only possible in the Congress,” Patra said and appealed to the people to “build pressure” on the Karnataka chief minister for his resignation.

The BJP leader also targeted Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, raising the issue of alleged irregularities in the allocation of a 5-acre land to a trust run by his family in Karnataka.

“Kharge family-run trust has not only grabbed the 5-acre land near hi-tech defence aerospace park in Bengaluru but also land of the Waqf Board,” Patra alleged referring to former Karnataka State Minorities Commission Chairman Anwar Manippady’s submission before the Joint Parliamentary Committee.

Patra also slammed the Congress over the Enforcement Directorate’s claim that more than seven lakh people in the Bellary Lok Sabha seat were given Rs 200 each to vote in favour of the party’s candidate during Lok Sabha polls this year and the money came from the cash siphoned in the alleged Valmiki scam by former Karnataka tribal minister B Nagendra along with his aides.