A former Janata Dal (Secular) leader, PGR Sindhia, who has fallen out with party leader and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, met Karnataka Governor Rameshwar Thakur on Tuesday and sought investigations into all projects cleared by the Kumaraswamy Government in the past three months.
Sindhia, who has alleged corruption in the recently cleared projects, said he met the Governor to apprise him of the situation in Karnataka and offered advice on tightening the administration in the state.
The former JD(S) leader, against whom an anti-defection complaint is pending, has questioned the CM’s decision to hand over the Rs 60,000-crore Bidadi Township Project to DLF Ltd. Sindhia said he will submit to the Governor a list of scandals committed during the tenure of the coalition Government.
The Government had, at its penultimate Cabinet meeting on October 1, cleared the awarding of the Bidadi Township Project, located on nearly 9,000 acres of land in the home constituency of Kumaraswamy, to DLF. On October 3, a Cabinet meeting sans BJP ministers authorised officers to create an MoU to be signed by the SKIL Infrastructure Company to create an SEZ in the Nandagudi area, just outside Bangalore.
The meeting also cleared acquisition of Government land for an SEZ project in Mangalore and authorised a private company for preparation of detailed project report for a monorail project in Bangalore.