Karnataka CM rejects BJP’s demand for CBI probe into land ‘scam’

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday, July 4, rejected BJP’s demand for a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in the allotment of sites to land losers, including his wife Parvathi, by Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA), as he stoutly denied any wrongdoing.

Terming the allegations against him by the opposition party as



‘political’, he questioned whether his family has to give up their land, just because he is Chief Minister.

The BJP has alleged that alternative sites were also allotted to Parvathi 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 MUDA, and sought his resignation.