A day after Opposition’s allegations, the ruling Congress on Saturday claimed that the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) allotted alternate sites to developers and industrialists during the tenure of previous BJP government.
Congress leader and MLC V.S. Ugrappa said that alternate sites were allotted to Shanta Industries and Hanumanthe Gowda, a developer, when D.V. Sadananda Gowda was the Chief Minister. Nearly 80 acres acquired for Kempe Gowda Layout was denotified during the BJP regime, he said.
The Congress leader said Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Jagadish Shettar and State BJP president B.S. Yeddyurappa have been making false charges against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to defame the government. Neither Mr. Siddaramaiah nor his sons were involved in the allotment of alternate sites to Shanta Industries in Bengaluru, he told reporters here.
Mr. Shettar had alleged that the BDA had suffered losses to the tune of thousands of crores owing to a scam in which land mafia had colluded with officials to illegally get “costlier” alternate sites in return for the land given for building roads in BDA layouts.
Mr. Ugrappa said a single-man committee headed by retired IAS officer Shashidhar had been constituted to conduct an inquiry into the allegations of violation of norms related to allotment of alternate sites and corner sties.
