Days after Karnataka unit of Congress put up ‘PayCM’ posters throughout Bengaluru, with a QR code and chief minister Basavaraj Bommai’s photograph with the message “40% accepted right here”, a reference to allegations that contractors should pay 40% fee to get contracts, the CM slammed the social gathering on Friday.
Bommai termed the marketing campaign as a transfer to “deflect consideration away from their very own instances of graft and to mislead the individuals”. The Congress had moved an adjournment movement to debate “corruption inside the Bommai administration” however the Home didn’t take it up for dialogue on Friday, the final day of the monsoon session that started on September 12.
“The opposition events raised a number of points… politically…whether or not it was the PSI (police sub-inspector) rip-off or others…(it) has backfired on them. They had been talking about points on which now we have already taken motion. What (probe in opposition to corruption) they didn’t do throughout their regime, now we have already completed,” Bommai stated.
“This @BJP4Karnataka govt is probably the most coward & corrupt govt within the historical past of Karnataka.They might not face us even within the meeting & didn’t enable us to debate about their corruption. They abruptly ended the session, in flip dishonest the Kannadigas. #40PercentSarkara,” stated Siddaramaiah, the chief of the opposition.
The ‘40% fee’ narrative got here into being after the Karnataka State Contractors Affiliation, in July final yr, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union authorities, alleging the rising demand for bribes for awarding of public works and earlier than the discharge of funds.
The contractors’ affiliation had alleged that the ministers, elected representatives and officers had been demanding bribes that had made engaged on public contracts troublesome.
“One yr in the past they (contractors’ affiliation) wrote a letter, however not a single case or criticism has not been filed they usually have introduced no paperwork. I’m asking the affiliation right this moment as nicely to provide us paperwork and we’ll instantly order a probe on who demanded the bribe, from which division and the way a lot was paid…They’ll even file a criticism to the Lokayukta and they’ll probe it immediately,” Bommai stated.
“BJP’s try and dig up the Congress’s outdated rip-off is like pouring water right into a waterless nicely! However now the ghost of outdated scandals has risen and it’s not the Congress however the BJP itself. Why is ex #PayCM (BS Yediyurappa) @BSYBJP & present #PayCM in regards to the investigation of household irregularities? #40PercentSarkara,” the state unit of Congress tweeted by way of its official Twitter deal with on Friday.