Video: Suspended Amid Honey Lure Row, Karnataka MLAs Carried Out By Marshals
Bengaluru:
Dramatic scenes performed out on the Karnataka Meeting advanced on Friday after 18 BJP MLAs had been suspended following an uproar over alleged honey entice makes an attempt towards practically 50 leaders, together with ministers, and the 4 per cent minority quota in authorities contracts. Movies confirmed marshals carrying at the least 4 MLAs out of the Meeting on their shoulders with a few of them persevering with to chant slogans, together with ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’, as they did so.
Cooperation Minister Ok N Rajanna, who’s from the Congress, had knowledgeable the Meeting on Thursday that there had been makes an attempt to honey entice him and at the least 47 different politicians throughout events. Residence Minister G Parameshwara had assured the Home that the matter can be investigated.
#WATCH | Bengaluru: 18 Karnataka BJP MLAs being carried out of the Meeting after their suspension.
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When the Home assembled on Friday, MLAs from the opposition BJP and Janata Dal (Secular) tropped into the nicely and shouted slogans, waving compact discs (CDs) that they claimed contained proof of a number of honey entice makes an attempt.
BJP MLA Sunil Kumar demanded that Siddaramaiah deal with the problem earlier than he responded to the controversy on the state price range and the chief minister stated the federal government would guarantee a correct investigation and motion can be taken towards anybody discovered responsible.
“The federal government has a accountability to make sure these responsible below the legislation are punished. If Rajanna filed a grievance… a high-level investigation will likely be carried out, as assured by the house minister… Citing the matter once more, after this assurance, is pointless,” Mr Siddaramaiah stated.
Utilizing an analogy to warning towards over-the-top motion, the chief minister continued, “Simply because an ox has been tied up doesn’t imply your entire shed ought to be locked up… Rajanna didn’t point out names. Had he performed so, motion may have been taken. There is no such thing as a query of defending anybody on this case.”
BJP and JDS MLAs, nonetheless, insisted on an investigation led by a sitting excessive court docket choose and, when Mr Siddaramaiah started his response to the price range, trooped into the nicely once more, tearing up items of paper and throwing it within the route of Speaker UT Khader.
Because the chaos continued, the Speaker suspended 18 BJP MLAs for six months for “disrespecting” the Chair. The suspended MLAs embody Munirathna, Doddanagouda Patil. H Patil, Ashwath Narayan, SR Vishwanath, MR Patil, Suresh Gowda, Bharath Shetty and Yashpal Suvarna.
A few of these MLAs had been then carried out by the marshals.
Karnataka BJP President BY Vijayendra slammed the Congress authorities for attempting to “cowl up the problem”.
Minister’s Remarks
Talking within the Meeting on Thursday, Minister Rajanna had stated makes an attempt had been made to honey entice 48 MLAs over the previous 20 years. He was responding to reviews of two ladies being arrested for allegedly honey trapping BJP chief Annappa Swamy in Tumakuru district. Mr Swamy had alleged {that a} girl had befriended him on Fb and he was then blackmailed with their intimate movies.
“There’s speak {that a} minister from Tumkuru has been the sufferer of a honey entice. There are solely two of us from Tumkuru, one is me and the opposite is the house minister. This isn’t new, there are 48 members who’re stated to have been victims of this… There are such folks on either side and now my title can also be being taken. I enchantment to the Residence Minister to research this matter completely. If wanted, I’m able to file a grievance myself. Not less than we should always know who’s its ‘director’ and who’s the ‘actor’,” Mr Rajanna stated.
