Bengaluru: The State Government yesterday constituted a Judicial Commission to probe into the alleged scam in land allotments by the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA). Justice Padmaraj Nemachandra Desai, a retired judge of the Karnataka High Court, is the sole member of the Commission. “The Government has decided to constitute a Commission of Inquiry to…
Public interest issues in Mysuru: MGP to hold campaigns, protests till logical end
July 15, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP) has decided to address various public issues in the city, including the MUDA site allocation scam, footpath encroachments, water supply, cleanliness and formation of ward committees. They plan to do this by organising various public campaigns — both online and offline — such as signature campaigns and protests. In…
Time to remember prophetic words of former Mysuru DC
July 15, 2024Among animals man is considered a sapient animal with five sensory organs and also a sixth sense. One may call it by multiple names — gut feeling, omen, intuition or power of prophesy. Some people have the power to foresee what is to come either by observing the past events connected to a subject matter…
MUDA 50:50 site scam: Corner sites in prime layouts across city misallocated causing financial loss
July 14, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: In a significant revelation, prime corner sites in various localities within Mysuru city, which were reserved to generate revenue for the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA), have been misallocated under the 50:50 site allotment scam. These spacious corner sites, strategically located on both sides of the road at various prime layouts, were intended to…
Guv must permit prosecution of CM Siddaramaiah: HDK
July 14, 2024‘Process of land registration for Siddaramaiah’s wife took place at Jaladarshini Guest House in 2020’ Bengaluru: Union Minister for Steel and Heavy Industries H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK) has accused Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of direct involvement in the MUDA scam. Addressing the media yesterday, Kumaraswamy claimed that land gifted to Parvathi, Siddaramaiah’s wife, was denotified in 1998…
Probe deepens; Review of past MUDA meetings begins
July 13, 20247,000 pages of meeting proceedings of the last five years being photocopied Mysore/Mysuru: The IAS Officer R. Venkatachalapathy-led Inquiry Committee, probing the alleged scam at Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) in the allotment of sites, has been examining the meeting proceedings of MUDA over the last five years. The officers attached to the Inquiry Committee…
MUDA Protest: The Stench of Hypocrisy
July 13, 2024While calling for a CBI investigation and demanding Siddaramaiah’s resignation on moral grounds, will the BJP and JD(S) first take the moral high ground by suspending their own senior MLAs, who were MUDA members in 2021 under whose watch this scam occurred? Rohini Sindhuri, the former Deputy Commissioner of Mysuru District, had penned a letter…
Pro and anti-protests over scam in MUDA: High drama as BJP, Congress workers agitate in city
July 12, 2024Mysuru/ Bengaluru: High drama unfolded in the city this morning as BJP and Congress party workers staged protests and counter-protests at different venues over the controversy surrounding the scam at the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA), turning the spotlight on Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, whose wife, Parvathi, was allotted 14 sites by MUDA under the 50:50…
Had to escape Police in a vegetable vehicle: R. Ashoka
July 12, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: Leader of Opposition R. Ashoka, who succeeded in evading the Police in Bengaluru and reaching Mysuru along with former Deputy Chief Minister Dr. C.N. Ashwath Narayan, revealed that they had to use a vegetable-laden vehicle to evade the Police’s vigilant watch. The Police had created a security fortress in an attempt to curb their…
Srirampura CA site divided into plots: MLC Manjegowda rebuts Vishwanath’s allegations
July 12, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: JD(S) MLC C.N. Manjegowda strongly rebutted the allegations made by MLC A.H. Vishwanath regarding the conversion of lands reserved for civic amenities and a park at survey number 86 in Srirampura into individual plots. Addressing the media at Pathrakarthara Bhavan this morning, Manjegowda explained that the land in question had been handed over to…
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