'A Rs 4,000-cr scandal' — Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah, his wife & loyalists in eye of MUDA ‘scam’ storm

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Bengaluru: During his tenure as the chief minister of Karnataka in the current term and the previous one Siddaramaiah has rarely been faced with allegations of corruption, unlike his aides or the ministers in the government led by him, until now...

The Congress leader and his wife, Parvathi, are now being accused by the Opposition of benefitting via an illegal compensatory land deal from Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA)...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had lost the 2023 Karnataka assembly elections and some of its seats to the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections in the state, is calling it a Rs 4,000 crore scandal and demanding a CBI probe..

The BJP has claimed that Siddaramaiahs family received plots in localities with higher value of land, shooting up the value of the asset, when compared to the actual land in Kesare...

One member of the Congress government has resigned since the party stormed to power in last years elections.. B. Nagendra, Karnatakas minister for Scheduled Tribes Welfare, youth empowerment and sport, resigned in the first week of June after allegations of illegal transfer of funds from the state-run Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation Limited...

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