Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said “there was nothing new” in the voluminous report released by JD(S) leader and former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on the controversial land denotification in Arkavathi Layout in Bengaluru.
The report by Kumaraswamy had repeated same allegations made by Opposition BJP leaders earlier, he said. Land denotifications in the Arkavathi Layout had been done only during the administration of Mr. Kumaraswamy, B.S. Yeddyurappa and other BJP Chief Ministers. “Not a single gunta of land had been denotified after the Congress came to power in May 13, 2013,” Mr. Siddaramaiah claimed.
Speaking to presspersons here, he said BJP and JD(S) leaders have been the raising issue of denotification issue for political mileage. “Let them (JD (S) and BJP leaders) give documents to the Judicial Commission,” he said.
Replying to a query on the functioning of the Judicial Commission constituted to probe lands denotifications in the layout, he said, all documents related to the Arkavathi Layout would be given to the commission.
On issue of alleged corruption in the granting of mining leases to seven firms for 20 years, the Chief Minister said he would reply to the issue in the legislature.
Mr. Siddaramaiah also said he would attend a meeting of NITI Aayog convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital on Sunday.
