Firoz.T.Totanawala The Bangalore Metro Reporter DOUBLE STANDARD POLITICS ASHOK CHAVAN V/S YEDURAPPA

BY. FIROZ.T.TOTANAWALA 

THE BANGALORE METRO REPORTER

DOUBLE STANDARD POLITICS 

ASHOK CHAVAN V/S YEDURAPPA 

 The Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan had to resign following the Adarsh Housing Society scam where flats meant for Kargil widows were cornered by defense personnel and powerful politicians. Much before Ashok Chavan became the CM, his relatives had purchased flats in this housing complex. When the scam broke out, the Congress high command ensured that Ashok Chavan tendered his resignation but waited for disclosure till Obama departed. The BJP stalled the parliament demanding the resignation but Ashok Chavan had already resigned before. The same BJP who stalled the Parliament had to apply same yardstick to their Chief Minister B.S Yeddyurappa who is involved in similar, if not more serious scam. But, the reality is different in South. 

 The opening day of the parliament saw the congress High command ordering capital punishment to two of its senior leaders. It had asked the Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan to resign and stripped CPP general Secretary Suresh Kalmadi from the post. Unaware of these developments the BJP and its allies stalled the house proceedings demanding resignation of Ashok Chavan and ordering CBI enquiry into the Adarsha Housing Society scam. The BJP also demanded the resignation of Suresh Kalmadi the Chairman of Organising Committee of the recently concluded common wealth games. 

 But what they did not bargain for was the swift action by Sonia Gandhi even before the houses met. In the wake of the Adarsh Society scam, Ashok Chavan had tendered his resignation to Sonia Gandhi on 5th November itself. But she kept it pending till the visiting US President Barak Obama left the Country. She directed Ashok Chavan to submit the papers to the Governor. At the same time, she had asked Suresh Kalmadi to resign from the post of Secretary of the Congress parliamentary party. As far as Adarsh Society is concerned, the CBI was told to conduct the probe and the CBI is already probing the CWG scams. In one shot, Sonia Gandhi had taken the winds away from the BJP. Then BJP demanded the sacking of Telecom Minister A Raja for his role in the 2G spectrum scam. But, because Raja belongs to DMK, Sonia Gandhi had to take the consent of Karunanidhi to sack him and it obviously took a couple of days for a decision in this regard. 

 But, now the Congress has turned the tables against BJP daring it to emulate its action in the case of Karnataka Chief Minister B.S.Yeddyurappa, who is neck deep involved in similar if not more serious scams. For reasons best known, the BJP High Command took no action, not even rebuke against Yedurappa. 

 In fact, the BJP in Karnataka has heralded despicable political culture. It came to power by purchasing six independents. It acquired majority by reducing the strength of opposition parties by engineering resignations of their MLAs and making them Ministers and getting them elected in the bye elections. In the recent rebellion of twenty MLAs, the Yedurappa Government saved the day by disqualifying 16 MLAs through the speaker just hours before the vote of confidence. Thus it survived by reducing the strength of the house itself. The political culture sunk to its new low in the history of Indian democracy. 

 More than this despicable political culture, the Yedurappa Government is neck deep in hi-fi corruption. And leading the way is none other than the Chief Minister himself. He is involved in a scam which is worse than Ashok Chavan’s. Yedurappa’s MP Son B.Y Raghvendra, his son-in-law have purchased BDA acquired lands in Arkavathi Layout. S.N Krishnaiah Setty has sold (?) the lands. The Supreme Court has upheld the acquisition of lands for Arkavathi layout. After the lands were registered in the names of Raghavendra and other family members, Yedurappa got the lands denotified despite opposition from the BDA. What more, as a safe bet, the original owner was made to apply for denotification instead of Raghavendra and others. This was a clear plan to keep the entire scam under wraps. The lands are of course worth crores! 

 There are other denotifications by Yedurappa which were all for monetary gains. In one particular case, Yedurappa denotified BDA lands in Nagarabhavi where the BDA had allotted sites and houses were build years ago including that of Law and Urban Development Minister Suresh Kumar. How can one imagine the denotification of fully build up lands by Yedurappa? It is simply inhuman and cruel. And when the matter was taken up in the High Court, Yedurappa simply cancelled the denotification. 

 As far as Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan is concerned, his relatives had procured the flat much before he became the CM. Here too, the land on which the Apartments were built was meant for widows of Kargil heroes. But the flats were grabbed by many top defense personnel and powerful politicians. Successive CMs from Sushil Kumar Shindhe, Vilas Rao Deshmukh etc. have contributed their mite in getting clearance to the Housing project. After the scam broke out, the Government has withdrawn occupancy certificates and declared the Housing Complex as illegal as it violated Zonal Regulations and sanctioned plan. Finally, with his relatives’ names in the beneficiaries list, Ashok Chavan met Sonia Gandhi and submitted his resignation as CM. It was accepted but declared officially only after Obama left India. 

 In case of BSY, one can find similarities with Ashok Chavan’s case. Raghavendra purchased some lands in Arkavathi Layout which was acquired by BDA years back. The Supreme Court had held the land acquisition valid. There is also a SC judgement to the effect that once the lands are acquired, they can not be denotified. But Yedurappa overruled all the objections by BDA and Urban Development and ordered the denotification of the land. The reason being simple, the lands were purchased by his Son and son-in-law! 

 The Congress is right when it dared the BJP to emulate the Ashok Chavan incident in case of BSY also. But the BJP is in no mood, even to contemplate issuing a warning to Yedurappa. And the BJP always take up high moral ground over probity in public life. They are adopting double standard now. One cannot expect any meaningful and positive action from the BJP High Command in the case of Yedurappa. And what about Yedurappa? He does not even dream of quitting the CM post and recently made a claim of being in the CM chair for another 20 years? God save Karnataka!

Firoz.T.Totanawala The Bangalore Metro Reporter THE POLITICS OF SAFEGUARDING CM COMMITS SCAMS AND AVOIDS LOKAYUKATA NET

BY. FIROZ.T.TOTANAWALA

THE BANGALORE METRO REPORTER 

 THE POLITICS OF SAFEGUARDING 

 CM COMMITS SCAMS AND AVOIDS LOKAYUKATA NET 

 The CM Yedurappa’s multifaceted; multi dimensional and well documented scams have become highly embarrassing for him has tried to buy time to bury the same. He has formed a judicial commission headed by Justice Padmaraj, a retired HC judge to probe the denotifications, allotments of lands for the last 16 years that is from 1995. It is another matter that Justice Padmaraj has his own reputation for fairness and balanced judgements. Most of the judgements of Justice Padmaraja that were challenged were upheld by the Supreme Court. Nobody can have any doubt about the fairness of the commission headed by Justice Padmaraja. 

 But that is no issue here. There was no necessity for having a judicial commission to probe the land denotifications since 1995 in first place. Any common man with ordinary level of sense will say that the probe will go on for years. But, Yedurappa has given only one year time to the commission to finish the probe and submit the report. This is humanly impossible as there are thousands of cases of denotifications of lands since 1995. 

 THE HISTORY 

 It is an open secret that till the year 2000, the denotifications were done on merits of the case and not monetary case. It was only after the year 2000 that the real estate in Bangalore flourished. The denotifications assumed importance particularly after the BDA started denotifying thousands of acres of lands for its layout and KIADB and KHB followed suit. 

 From the year 2006, when Yedurappa became Deputy with Kumaraswamy as the CM, the land prices soar to new heights. The real estate agents turned into developers and even the underworld entered the real estate in a big way. Politicians in power became their God fathers. It may be recalled that denotifications became a very lucrative business during Visweswaraya, Anjanapura, BSK 5th, 6th stage, Arkavathi layout formations. Many officials made hundreds of crores through denotifications. It continued during Dharam Singh regime and Kumaraswamy also provided ample opportunity. 

 From the moment, Yedurappa become Deputy CM, he became possessed with making a fortune. More than the CM, the Deputy Yedurappa made hundreds of deals with developers through his sons Raghavendra and Vijyendra. 

 THE RETURN OF JEWEL THIEF

 It is at this time that Yedurappa started his family enterprise. But before he could firmly establish his companies he lost power in 2007. However, he returned as a CM in 2008. And since then there is no stopping for his family enterprise in making crores and crores through denotifications/ allotments etc. Without investing anything these companies made crores of profit and there only investment is Yedurappa’s CM powers. 

 SAVING SKIN 

 But what prompted Yedurappa to order a judicial probe? The answer is very simple. When the unimaginable scams of Yedurappa in allotting highly valuable lands to his family members, denotifying the lands purchased by his family members etc started to get exposed one after the other, Yedurappa panicked. Even the leaders of his own party were shocked at his scams. To wriggle out of the situation, he got his family members to return the sites to BDA. Further, to stop the opposition from exposing his scams, he talked of a judicial probe on the denotifications of lands affected during the last 15 years. He made tall claims of holding a probe by a retired HC judge to silence the opposition. 

 While his scams issue raked up in Parliament, he had to take some action to insulate himself and also prevent the BJP High Command initiating any actions against him. In fact, the BJP had already decided to take action against him and summoned him to Delhi. But before leaving, he decided to constitute a Judicial commission to probe the land denotifications, allotments etc. And to take the revenge with Deve Gowda, he extended the probe to be conducted from 1995. The rest is history. Yedurappa arm twisted and even threatened the BJP High Command and avoided his sacking. He succeeded and Justice Padmaraj was nominated to the judicial enquiry and is given one year to complete the task. This is simply an impossible task as one cannot expect the commission to probe innumerable cases in just one year. 

 MAMMOTH TASK

 It is a fact that one can expect more than 2000 BDA denotifications from 1995 and about 1000 cases in KIADB. The commission has to probe each case on merits. It cannot club all the cases as each case has a different history. Firstly, the commission has to identify the cases, the beneficiaries and the officials responsible for the denotifications. It also has to identify the political force behind and issue notices to all the identified people and officials. They are also required to be given ample opportunity to defend them and their actions. There is the usual examination and cross examinations of the witnesses etc. There is also the question of availability of records. There may be cases where people concerned may be dead, and the officials have either died, retired or even untraceable. The commission cannot work round the clock. In a matter of one year, even if the commission has a little over 100 sittings, it will be a record. 

 Moreover, the commission needs a separate establishments, offices, courtrooms, staff etc and it would take at least two to three months for the commission to start the preliminary works provided the Government shows promptness and good intentions. As there are few Ministers including Yedurappa himself in such scams, the Government may not show much interest in the follow up actions to provide necessary infrastructure to the commission. 

This being the case, the commission needs at least 10 years to probe thousands of denotification cases. In some cases, the commission also has to conduct spot inspection. It is not that all the denotifications done so far are scandalous. Except few notorious cases, most of the denotification cases till 2006 have justifications. A fully developed revenue pocket cannot be acquired as the same cannot be used for forming a layout or sites. The land is not only unfit but even the acquisitions cost will be too high. Then there are practical difficulties in demolishing the buildings etc. In 2003, the BDA made a policy decision not to demolish residential buildings built on acquiring/acquired lands. In such cases, denotifications are the only way. The commission cannot overlook these practical problems and ground realities. 

In 1995, the Government implemented the regularization of the Government properties in a big way. In 2007, the Government passed a 1 time Akrama-Sakrama regularization scheme for revenue and unauthorized properties in the entire state. But is yet to be implemented. 

 To be frank, the denotifications assumed gigantic proportions only after 2002. It reached zenith in 2005 and for the last two and a half years assumed gigantic proportions and has even threatened the Government of Yedurappa. There is no denying the fact that from the last 5 to 6 years denotification has become a big business and also one of the means for the politicians to dole out largesse to their loyalists. 

 In all fairness, the commission should restrict it probe to the denotifications from 2005 and not from 1995. If it does start the probe from 2005, it can expose the demon in all its dimensions. Since the basis of set up of commission is to probe the denotifications by Yedurappa, it should at least start the probe from the period of Yedurappa. Probing from the year 2008 first is best suitable simply because all the politicians and officials are available in the same positions and even the records are easily accessible. In addition, most of the denotifications follow similar patterns and all can be clubbed together and probed. Once this is complete, the commission can go back to the past. 

 SIDELINING THE LOKAYUKTA

 Let us come to the practical aspect of the probe by the commission. It is true that Justice Santosh Hegde is already probing the KIADB land scams from the past few months. During the probe, the Lokayukta has already trapped Katta Jagadish, the corporator son of Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu. Further, even the involvement of the Minister and his wife is also established and the Lokayukta may file charge sheet anytime. 

 The Lokayukta has also arrested many officials in KIADB for their involvement in many scams. This sum up that Lokayukta is conducting a full fledged probe in these scams already. Now if the Commission takes up the probe it will be duplicating the futile exercise. 

 Besides, the Lokayukta is also taking up complaint against BSY in respect of denotifications, misuse, abuse of power and nepotism. There are 8 compalints before the Lokayukta against the CM in this regard. If the Judicial Commission takes up these cases, Lokayukta, though unlikely will have to close down the complaints against Yedurappa. 

 The Lokayukta Santosh Hegde is a retired Supreme Court judge and has almost finished the KIADB scam probe. If he continues he will finish up the story in a couple of months compared to the commission which will take years. 

 If Yedurappa was honest, he could have entrusted the probe of denotification to the Lokayukta himself. While Lokayukta is scheduled to retire in few months, it would not have prevented him to take up the probe. The Government also could have given him an extension for the cause of the probe. 

 But who cares? BSY is afraid of Santosh Hegde and wants to save his skin by delay tactics. The best option therefore for him is to opt for a judicial probe and that too order it to be conducted from 1995, which will take years together to finish. God save Karnataka!

Firoz.T.Totanawala The Bangalore Metro Reporter THE DEFEAT OF THE LAW BBMP REGULARISES REVENUE PROPERTIES IN SACHINDANANDANAGAR LAYOUT

BY. FIROZ.T.TOTANAWALA 

THE BANGALORE METRO REPORTER

 THE DEFEAT OF THE LAW 

 BBMP REGULARISES REVENUE PROPERTIES IN SACHINDANANDANAGAR LAYOUT 

 The Commissioner of BBMP Mr. Siddaiah has done an unimaginable act by getting the khatas registered to the hundreds of sites in the illegal Sachindanandanagar Layout formed by the notorious Viswa Bharthi Housing Co-op Society. Proving that he can be subdued with media and other pressure, Siddaiah has registered the khatas to the sites in this illegal layout and legalized the highly illegal act. If the same yardstick is applied, Siddaiah will have to register the khatas to lakhs of revenue properties in BBMP areas. To hell with law of the land! 

 In our earlier edition, we had discussed about how B. Krishna Bhat of the Viswa Bharti Housing Society undertook illegalities to form of the Sachindanandanagar layout which thus became illegal in itself. It was clearly explained that the land does not belong to the society and the society has also not obtained layout plan sanctioned from the BDA. It has not even got the lands converted and there are other violations with regard to Co-op. Society’s Act, Land reforms Act, Town planning Acts, etc. 

 In fact, the land has been forfeited by the government in 2001 itself. The final word on this is yet to be said by the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal where the dispute is pending. The BDA had notified the layout as illegal and ordered demolition of the unauthorized constructions in the years 2005 and 2007. The plain fact is that B.Krishna Bhat, had purchased agricultural lands the dispute of which becomes ineligible under Land Revenue Act and Land Reforms Act. He has also used the society’s funds to purchase the lands and again used the society’s name to register sites formed in the illegal layout to the purchasers by treating them as members! 

 On the whole the entire layout is a revenue layout. In the year 1996, the CMCs in the city collected betterment charges from the revenue property owners for having utilized the civic amenities provided by CMCs and issued ‘Holder’ Khatas to them. It should be noted that the khatas effected were only symbolic and not the regular khatas. The holder khatas do not guarantee right, title and ownership, it was only meant for collecting betterment charges and tax towards using the amenities provided by the CMCs. 

 Naturally, few owners of sites in Sachindanandagar layout got the khatas by payment of betterment charges. So taking advantage of the betterment charges scheme, about 100 site owners obtained khatas for their properties in 1996. Later, the Divisional Commissioner directed the CMC, Pattanagere (now RR Nagar) to stop collecting betterment charges. 

 B.Krishna Bhat went to the court and in the year 2005 the civil court directed the CMC to register the khatas after quashing the directions of the Divisional Commissioner. Needless to say that Krishna Bhat managed to get the orders by misleading the court and also ensured that the CMC does not go in appeal. By this time, the Government had confiscated the lands purchased by the B Krishna Bhat violating Lands Reforms Act. He then filed an appeal in KAT but till now, no final word is said about the same. As on now, the land records stands in the name of the Government. In 2007, the Government banned the collection of betterment charges by the CMCs as it became clear that the CMCs had no such powers. 

 At the same time, the Government passed a bill for ‘One Time’ Akrama-Sakrama scheme to regularize unauthorised constructions and Revenue Properties. But the enforcement of the Act from 1-1-2008 was deferred under High Court orders. Later, the Government tried to bring some reforms and two months back, passed the modified Akrama-Sakrama Bill. But the Governor had refused to sign the bill and as on now, the Akrama-Sakrama scheme is in cold storage. As such, the regularization of sites in Sachindanandanagar layout must wait till the Akrama-Sakrama scheme is brought into force. 

 But some of the site owners were not prepared to wait. Manjunath alias Quality Manju formed a Resident’s Association and moved the BBMP’s RR Nagar Zonal Joint Commissioner Veda Murthy to get the khatas to about 800 properties. He started collecting amount between 3 to 5 lakhs from the owners depending on the size of the property. Manju also enlisted the support of local MLA M.Srinivas whose word is Law for the BBMP officials. In fact, the entire multi crores deal was to be based on the city court’s order directing the CMC to register the khatas. As the government has banned the collection of betterment charges itself and brought in a special Akrama-Sakrama Scheme to regularize the revenue properties, there was no way the sites could be regularized at this juncture. But that did not deter Manju to clinch a ‘deal’ with BBMP officials to get the Khatas, illegally, albeit for a price. 

 In the meanwhile, another association was formed among the site owners and they had approached the Lokayukta against the BBMP officials and carried a media blitz bringing their woes to the public notice. They also based their case on the city court order concern only with ‘Holder’ or ‘Anubhuvdar’ khatas and not the regular khatas. They made the Lokayukta to come to their rescue. As luck would have it, the BBMP’s Additional Commissioner Veda Murthy in his reply to the Lokayukta complaint gave a wrong reply about the status of the case relating to an appeal to the city civil court order. This was sufficient for the Lokayukta to bang the BBMP officials and within the next of couple of days, Veda Murthy went out of BBMP and K.M Ramachandran took over as the Additional Commissioner of RR Nagar Zone. 

 After assuming the chair, K.M Ramachandran from day one was determined to clinch the deal under the direction of MLA Srinivas and Manju. He was waiting for an excuse to start issuing the khatas. 

 The Lokayukta’s slap was a God sent opportunity to complete the deal. The other group also mounted pressure on the BBMP Commissioner Siddaiah and finally Siddaiah relented and ordered the issue of khatas. 

 The other day, a group of the site owners laid seizes to RR Nagar Zonal office and forced the officials to issue the khatas to 120 of their members. They continued it till midnight and got khatas. Similarly, the Manju group too got the khatas. The BBMP officials particularly K M Ramachandran, the RO, ARO etc. are smiling from ear to ear for having made few millions. The owners are happy for having got the khatas to their properties in the illegal Sachindanandanagar layout. Every body is happy except the law of the land. 

 In fact, Law of the land has become the first casualty. The entire episode throw much light on the machinations, manipulations etc. of the bureaucrats and the astronomical level of corruption. In one go, about 800 revenue properties have been regularized by the BBMP without caring for the law of the land. If the same properties were to be regularized under Akrama-Sakrama Scheme, the BBMP would have netted revenue of not less than 20 crores. 

 The combined force of money, muscle power, media etc. has resulted in BBMP regularizing more than 800 revenue properties in an illegal layout. The question is will the BBMP regularize lakhs of other revenue properties in city and give khatas to them? 

The entire episode needs a serious introspection among all particularly those who respect the law of the land!

Firoz.T.Totanawala The Bangalore Metro Reporter ILLEGALLY LEGAL CM & COMPANY DEFENDS THAT ALL LAND DEALS WERE LEGAL

BY. FIROZ.T.TOTANAWALA 

THE BANGALORE METRO REPORTER

 ILLEGALLY LEGAL 

 CM & COMPANY DEFENDS THAT ALL LAND DEALS WERE LEGAL 

 In the wake of the disastrous Land scam, the Karnataka State politics has touched the lowest level. In spite of clear and transparent evidences, the Chief Ministers and his other Ministers are defending themselves saying that all the land deals were legal. According to them, the allotment of prime sites in posh localities to CM B.S. Yeddyurappa’s MP son B.Y. Raghavendra, who already owns houses lands in Bangalore is legal. The false affidavit by B.Y. Raghavendra for acquiring the site worth in crores for a paltry sum of Rs. 8 lakhs is also legal. The denotifications of highly valuable lands in highly developed layouts, despite the Supreme Court judgements, are strictly legal, the formation of firms to collect the ‘deal’ money by the kith and kin of B.S.Yedurappa and also a share in the denotified lands are all legal. Similarly, the allotments of lands in a mortal hurry to the kith and kin of ministers are also strictly legal. They insist that every rule has been followed for denotification and allotment of lands and defend their actions by arguing that, the previous regimes did the same, and that they continued the tradition. 

 However, none of them can explain the documentary evidence and records that have surfaced along with the scams. The maximum these defenders say is that there is a malicious propaganda against the BJP by the frustrated opposition and a section of the media. In contrast, the opposition, especially the JD(S) Boss Kumaraswamy is challenging the defenders to prove that the scams are false or the records are fabricated. And nobody has given any reply to this challenge. 

 Let us take few cases of the scam and the ‘legality’ of the same as per B.S.Yedurappa gang and the traditional meaning. 

 INVALID APPLICATION 

 Take the case of allotment of a big BDA site in RMV Extension to B.Y Raghvendra, the MP son of B.S.Yedurappa. The stray sites are allotted to eminent people who have served the state with distinction. The rule also states that people, who are in the social service for long, may also be allotted a site. More than anything, a person who eminence or other wise, who own a site or house in Bangalore either in his/her name or family’s name cannot even apply for the allotment. 

 However, B.Y. Raghavendra, is neither an eminent citizen nor a social worker for long. Nobody had even heard his name till May 2009 when he won the MP election. Even his MPship is just one and a half years old. And his eminence had come from the fact that he is the son of the Chief Minister B.S.Yedurappa. Raghavendra owns big properties in Bengaluru and Yedurappa too owns a big bungalow in Bengaluru. As per the ‘Tradition’ Law, B.Y.Raghavendra is ineligible to apply for stray site allotment in first place, let alone getting the site allotted. But Raghavendra submitted a false affidavit and his CM father wasted no time in allotting him a big site in RMV Extension. And defenders of scams say everything is legal. 

 Now, unable to face the publicity, Raghavendra has returned the site and claimed refund of Rs. 8 lakhs paid as sital cost. The Traditional ‘legal procedure says that BDA has to forfeit the cost as the site was obtained through false affidavit. But the ‘legality’ of B.S.Yedurappa gang makes the criminal offence a virtue and the BDA is all set to refund the site cost. The same is the case with ‘other’ stray sites allotted by B.S.Yedurappa to his sister, sister’s son etc. 

 COLLECTION COMPANIES 

 B.S.Yedurappa denotified hundreds of acres of prime land acquired by BDA for its various projects. However, his style of collecting favours against his illegal acts was unique indeed. He formed many firms in his kith and kin’s names and those who wanted to get denotification/allotment of lands were required to pay non refundable deposit in these firms. Once the ‘deal’ money was paid to one of these companies, Yedurappa would issue the orders. In some cases, the parties even had to part with a share in the land by registering the lands in the name of the companies. This is Yedurappa’s concept of legalizing the corrupt practices. 

 SUPREME COURT SUPPRESSED

 In some of the denotification cases, the Supreme Court had clearly decreed that no land can be denotified after the BDA takes possession of the lands. But the CM team which has its own concept of law cared a damn for the Supreme Court order. Thus, B.S.Yedurappa denotified lands worth hundreds of crores acquired years back by BDA. Needless to say that Yedurappa’s collection companies have been flooded with crores and crores. And the defenders of the scam say that everything has been done legally! 

 Of course, the CM’s collection companies have made at least 100 crores profit in just one year without doing any business. Their only investment was the powers of the Chief Minister! But, there are clear records/ documents that show that Yedurappa and few of his ministers have shown official favour in lieu of heavy bribes both in cash and kind. And there are’ collection’ companies floated by them to receive the ‘deal money’ officially. As per the traditional meaning of law, these activities come under Prevention of Corruption Act punishable with long term jail. But as per Yedurappa gang, everything has been done legally. 

 THE LOKAYUKTA HURDLE

 Yedurappa was the most delighted man when the Lokayukta had resigned as he knew that one day the Lokayukta will knock on his door with full force to nail him. And now his fears have come true. The Lokayukta has already trapped the corporator son of Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu in the multi crore KIADB land scam and may arrest the Minister also. Drenched in corruption, favoritism, nepotism and what not, the CM naturally fears Justice Santosh Hegde as he has earlier already tested the Lokayukta’s heat in mining scam. It is another matter that Yedurappa has decided to conduct judicial enquiry into denotifications in the state since 1994. But this is a game plan meant to buy him time. However, he can not expect the Lokayukta to wait for the judicial enquiry. As per the traditional laws, the Lokayukta will conduct the probe and in all probability Yedurappa and his gang may face the music. 

 Further, Yedurappa is been challenged by the JDS which has filed a complaint with the Lokayukta against him and his scams. 

 All the scams committed by B.S.Yedurappa and his gang are out and out violative of the law of the land. And the Chief Minister and his supporting gang of Ministers say that everything B.S.Yedurappa and his gang have done is legal. God save Karnataka!