Siddaramaiah Government Was Unresponsive To Many Scams: CM Bommai

Mumbai: With political parties slated for assembly elections in Karnataka next year, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said the government led by Congress leader Siddaramaiah was unresponsive to several scams.

“The Siddaramaiah government was unresponsive to many scams related to recruitment tests and PU exams. It was a government that covered up many such scams,” Bommai told the media at Mysuru airport.

He said the head of the recruitment committee during the Siddaramaiah regime was himself an accused in the police recruitment scam.

“Siddaramaiah had handed over the case to CID only after the name of the accused figured in the FIR. However, they buried the case later. The scam related to the PU exam, in which Rs18 crore was collected by those involved in making promises of promoting the students who paid money, was also buried without taking any action against the culprits,” he alleged.

Bommai said, “Even when we raised the issue vigorously in the assembly session in the opposition, they refused to respond. It was a covered government.”

He said that for the first time in the state “our government has not only suspended a high-ranking official but also arrested him and the investigation is on”.

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