BJP national vice-president B.S. Yeddyurappa has said that he cannot be threatened through filing first information reports (FIR) and he will go ahead with the legal battle to prove himself innocent.
He told presspersons at K.K. Koppa on the sidelines of a padayatra from Badal Ankalgi to the Suvarana Vidhana Soudha on Saturday that the Lokayukta had filed 13 FIRs against him. “But the same Lokyukta is now facing corruption charges, which only reflects the administration of the Congress government headed by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.”
State BJP unit president Pralhad Joshi, MP, demanded that the government arrest Minor Irrigation Minister Shivaraj Tangadagi for his alleged role in the assault on a Dalit student in Hulihydera village at Kanakagiri constituency in Koppal district.
He said the party legislators would raise the issue along with that of sugarcane dues and the misrule of the Congress government during the monsoon session of the legislature scheduled to commence from Monday.
