Entire Karnataka state Cabinet should resign: CPI(M)

Statewide protest to be staged by CPI(M) and other organisations on December 9

Stating that scams had become the order of the day under the Bharatiya Janata Party Government, S. Prasannakumar, member of the State Secretariat of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), said on Friday that the entire Cabinet headed by B.S. Yeddyurappa should resign.

Mr. Prasannakumar told presspersons here that the BJP Government was being led by the “land and mining mafia”. Almost everyone in the Yeddyurappa Cabinet, apart from the Chief Minister and his family members, were allegedly involved in one scam or the other.

He accused the BJP's national leadership of turning a blind eye towards the scams in the State. “The attitude of the BJP national leadership clearly indicates that they are extending full support to what is happening in the State,” he said.

He asked the BJP what moral right it had to demand a detailed inquiry into the 2G spectrum scam by a Joint Parliamentary Committee when it had failed to take cognisance of the land scams in the State.

RSS criticised

Accusing the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of maintaining silence over the scams in Karnataka, he said, “The sangh, which speaks of values, is hoodwinking the people.”

Referring to the Government's decision to appoint a judicial commission to inquire into the alleged land-grabbing cases, he said the move was not only in violation of the Lokayukta Act but also an insult to the Lokayukta and the public.

“The Government wants to hush up the land scam cases,” he charged.

Referring to the distribution of saris to mothers of girl children covered under the Bhagyalakshmi scheme, he said the Government had spent Rs. 48 crore on purchase of saris and organising functions to distribute them against a budgetary allocation of around Rs. 25 crore for the purpose.

He said that the Left parties, in association with trade unions, including the Centre of Indian Trade Unions, and the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sanga, the Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha and others, had called for a Statewide protest on December 9 against the land and mining scams and the anti-people and anti-labour policies of the BJP Government. “Rasta roko, picketing, bandh, hartal are planned on that day and we appeal to the people to extend cooperation,” he said.

(courtesy : The Hindu)