A day after sanctioning prosecution of Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa in alleged land scams, Governor H.R. Bhardwaj’s order on the issue was delivered this morning to the Chief Minister’s office.
Mr. Yeddyurappa’s January 21 letter to Mr. Bhardwaj asking for a copy of the sanction order was received by Raj Bhavan at 11 PM, a communique said.
An eight—member ministerial team had this morning staged a march to Raj Bhavan demanding that the Governor provide them a copy of the order according sanction for prosecuting Mr. Yeddyurappa.
The Chief Minister had on Friday charged that the Governor had declined to furnish him a copy of the sanction order.
Irked by the announcement on prosecution even before a copy of the order was given to him, Mr. Yeddyurappa had shot off a letter to Mr. Bhardwaj taking exception to his conduct.
“It is very unfortunate that being a constitutional head of the state, a copy of the order passed by you was not handed over to me and the information of such an order was divulged to the press,” Mr. Yeddyurappa had said in his letter yesterday.
“I have neither received the copy of the complaint petition, nor an opportunity to explain my point of view.”
According to sources, angered over the denial, Mr. Yeddyurappa had planned to stage a dharna in front of the Raj Bhavan. However, later he dropped the plan and decided to write a protest letter to the Governor.
