DH News Service, Almatti (Bagalkot district), Aug 19 2017, 2:46 IST
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah offers Bhagina to Krishna River days after Lal Bahadur Shastri reached full reservoir level, at Almatti, Bagalkot district, on Friday. Ministers M B Patil, Umashree, Legislators S R Patil, Vijayanand Kashappanavar, ZP president Veena Kashappanavar among others are seen.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said that the state government has no role in the FIRs filed by Anti-corruption Bureau against BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa on the denotification of government land at Avalahalli in Bengaluru.
He was speaking to the reporters after offering ‘Bhagina’ to Krishna River at Lal Bahadur Shastri reservoir in Basavana Bagewadi taluk of Vijayapura district on Friday.
The Congress government had not indulged in vendetta politics and would never do so, he said.
“Nobody is above the law of land. ACB has filed an FIR based on the complaint lodged against Yeddyurappa. The state government is unnecessarily dragged into the issue. If it is not a vendetta politics, then how do you interpret the I-T raids on the premises of Energy Minister D K Shivakumar,” the chief minister questioned.
To a specific query, Siddaramaiah said that the Congress will retain the power in the state on its own.
Former minister H Y Meti, who was not seen in public after the rape victim lodged a complaint of sexual assault and life threat against him, gave the Bhagina offering programme a skip. However, the former minister’s cutouts and banners with his pictures welcoming the chief minister were seen on either side of the roads leading to Almatti.