Chief minister yeddyurappa attacked by JDS supporters

Bangalore:  JDS supporters attack the residence of CM's aid
Bangalore, Dec 1 Suspected JDS supporters
attacked the residence of a key aide of Karnataka Chief
Minister B S Yeddyurappa after he made allegations of land
grabbing against former Prime Minister and their party chief H.
D. Deve Gowda.

Police said the supporters pelted stones at the house
of Yeddyurappa's Political Secretary B J Puttaswamy last
night, damaging window panes and also a car, hours after he
levelled the charge.
They also raised slogans against the Yeddyurappa
government and Puttaswamy, who yesterday released some
documents alleging that Gowda and his family members grabbed
82.01 acres of land in Hassan district, the JDS chief's home
district.
 
Police said they are investigating the matter.
 Allegations of land scams have been flying thick and
fast between the BJP and the opposition, particularly JDS
which has been targeting the Chief Minister over
denotification of lands and allotment of prime plots to his
family members.

Angered by the JDS charges, Yeddyurappa has vowed "not
to rest" till he exposed the "misdeeds" of the Deve Gowda
family and decimated the JDS to ensure that only the BJP and
Congress remained in the state.
 
The government has ordered a judicial probe into land
scam allegations that covers a 16 year period, bringing the
regimes of Gowda's son H D Kumaraswamy, S M Krishna and Dharam
Singh, as also Deve Gowda himself under its ambit.
 Targeting Deve Gowda, the state cabinet also on Monday
decided to hold a CID probe into alleged corruption and
irregularities in the Upper Krishna Irrigation project during
the JDS chief's tenure as Chief Minister.