Kumaraswamy Corruption

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  "He Is Mentally Very Strong": HD Kumaraswamy Meets DK Shivakumar At Tihar Jail

  Former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy met jailed Congress leader DK Shivakumar at Delhi's Tihar Jail on Monday. Mr Shivakumar is accused of corruption in cases raised by the Income Tax department and Enforcement Directorate. Mr Kumaraswamy called in a "personal visit".

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  "Huge Corruption": BJP Accuses Kumaraswamy Cabinet Of Poll Code Violation

  BJP leader and former Chief Minister of Karnataka J Shettar on Sunday alleged that the HD Kumaraswamy cabinet, which passed a resolution on Nava Bengaluru scheme, has allocated the project to Karnataka Rural Infrastructure Development Limited (KRIDL) without tender.

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  Won't Move No-Confidence Motion Against Congress-JDS Government: BJP

  Amid allegations by the Congress-JDS ruling coalition against the BJP that it was trying to topple the government, BJP's Karnataka chief BS Yeddyurappa on Tuesday said his party will not move a no-confidence motion against the state government, though corruption was "rampant" and there was lack of coordination between the partners.

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  Where Is PM Modi Getting Money To Poach Lawmakers, Asks HD Kumaraswamy

  Questioning Narendra Modi over his claims of fighting corruption in the country, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy alleged that on one hand, the prime minister was talking about fighting corruption and, on the other, his party was trying to poach Congress legislators by using money.

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  Karnataka High Court To Decide On Turf War Between Two Anti-Graft Bodies

  The turf war between the Lokayukta and the Anti-Corruption Bureau in Karnataka will soon be settled by the Karnataka High Court. The High Court will be deciding on two related issues - the legality of the Anti-Corruption Bureau constituted in 2016 by the erstwhile Congress government led by Siddaramaiah and the restoration of power to the Lolayukta...

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  BS Yeddyurappa Says "Centre Will Retaliate" After HD Kumaraswamy's Warning

  Karnataka BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa has warned Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy of "retaliatory action by the centre" if the state government initiates any action against him. The state BJP president was reacting to Mr Kumaraswamy's warning for his corruption remark against the chief minister and his father HD Devegowda.

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  Ex-Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy Could Now Be Arrested

  Former Chief Minister of Karnataka HD Kumaraswamy of the Janata Dal Secular or JD(S) could be arrested on corruption charges with a Bengaluru court today refusing him anticipatory bail.

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  Jayalalithaa's Party Says Let's Name Newborns for Judge Who Acquitted Her

  The AIADMK chief, J Jayalalithaa's acquittal in the corruption case has given 64-year-old A Chandran a new mission in life. The councillor of Coimbatore's 84th ward now wants people to name their newborn boys after Justice CR Kumaraswamy, the Karnataka high court judge who gave the verdict.

• Lokayukta police file chargesheet against Kumaraswamy

  Lokayukta Police on Monday filed a chargesheet against former Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy in connection with a complaint alleging illegalities in denotification of government land in 2007 when he was the Chief Minister. Besides Kumaraswamy, former minister C Chennigappa, Raviprakash and Sriram, who were erstwhile owners of the land, ha...

• Karnataka politics: Sulks, letters, hunger strikes, and more

  Politicians in Karnataka have rarely flirted so openly with burlesque.Hunger strikes, invitations to take truth tests in temples, and more are part of the carnival being staged by Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and Opposition leader HD Kumaraswamy, who have both accused each other, publicly and in great detail, of chronic corruption.Mr Kumaraswamy ...

• Kumaraswamy to begin fast for CBI probe from 9th July in Bangalore

  JDS leader H D Kumaraswamy today expressed his resolve to go on an indefinite fast from 9th July demanding a CBI probe into the allegations by ruling BJP that his family had amassed Rs 1,500 crore wealth."I am firm on starting my agitation demanding CBI probe into the so-called 53-page charge sheet published by BJP against the Deve Gowda family. I ...

• Karnataka's In God We Trust Vote may not happen

  When politicians engage in warfare, as they frequently do, who's to decide who's right? God apparently. In Karnataka, Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa dared his arch-rival and Opposition leader HD Kumaraswamy to meet him in a temple. In an open letter published in local newspapers, Mr Yeddyurappa said that Mr Kumaraswamy should swear before God that h...

• In trouble for remarks on Mahatma Gandhi and corruption

  H D Kumaraswamy, who heads major Opposition party JD(S) in Karnataka, has landed in trouble for his remarks on Mahatma Gandhi.Mr Kumaraswamy had allegedly said that even Mahatma Gandhi would have turned corrupt in today's politics."If our leaders are talking like this, how are you going to root out corruption?" asked 72-year-old  Anna Hazare, ...

• Yeddyurappa's kin got kickbacks in return for contract: Kumaraswamy

  After being attacked over a slew of corruption charges, Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa is in the dock again. Opposition leader and former chief minister Kumaraswamy has now accused Yeddyurappa of receiving kickbacks through two family-owned companies in return for favouring a firm for a contract. The JD(S) leader has in the past, carried ...

• BJP leaders to meet on corruption charges against Karnataka CM

  The chorus of corruption charges and demands for the resignation of Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa are getting louder and the BJP is in damage-control mode.  The party's core committee will meet this evening to discuss the corruption allegations against Yeddyurappa, BJP president Nitin Gadkari said. Yeddyurappa has been accused of den...