Karnataka law minister quits over alleged land controversy
Suesh Kumar
Karnataka law and parliamentary affairs minister S. Suresh Kumar tendered his resignation on Saturday following allegations that he suppressed facts in an affidavit to obtain a residential site.
This has come as a blow to the BJP. However, chief minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda made it clear he would not accept his resignation in haste.
Suresh Kumar, who is also the urban development minister, denied the allegations and said he is ready to face any inquiry to bring the truth out. I have resigned to save the party and government from embarrassment, he said.
A section of the media had carried a story quoting an RTI applicant, who alleged that Kumar had suppressed the fact that his kin already owned two plots while obtaining the 'G' category (discretionary quota of the chief minister) site.
'I have not added any false information in the affidavit. I don't think I have done anything wrong,' Kumar said.
He said his mother, a retired teacher, sold her house here and two sites at Nelamangala, on the city's outskirts, which does not come under the Bangalore Development Authority, including one in the name of his daughter, to buy the present property.
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