KPCC president D K Shivakumar appears before CBI, flays ruling BJP


Bengaluru, Nov 26 (IANS): Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President, D.K. Shivakumar, and his brother and Bengaluru Rural Lok Sabha MP, D.K. Suresh, appeared before the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) on Wednesday. Both brothers are facing charges of accumulating wealth disproportionate to their income.

The CBI had served summons to Shivakumar and his brother to appear before them on the day of Shivakumar's elder daughter, Aisshwarya got engaged to BJP senior leader, S.M. Krishna's grandson, Amartya Hegde, on November 19.


D K Shivakumar

Speaking to reporters before leaving for the CBI office in Gangenhalli in the city, Shivakumar asserted that he and his family would cooperate with the probe agency to any extent.

"We are cooperating with them and none of my family members will ever question the style of function of these central agencies. Let them do their duty," he said, visibly irked over being sent the summon on the day of his daughter's engagement.

"They (CBI sleuths) had come on the day of my daughter's engagement. As the family was not available, they waited and served the notice to me and my brother the next day," he said.

He further charged that this was nothing but a malicious campaign and the ruling party in the Centre is trying its best to use central agencies to pressurise his family to succumb to them.

Training his guns on the ruling BJP at the centre, Shivakumar said, "Am I the only person or the only family in this state which is earning money? Why am I only being targeted? This in itself is a case in point to ponder over the Central Government and state government ruled by the BJP suggest that they are practicing nothing but a vendetta politics."

It is worth noting here that on October 5, the CBI had conducted raids at 14 locations, including in Karnataka, Delhi and Mumbai at the premises belonging to Shivakumar and others, and recovered Rs 57 lakh cash and several documents, including property documents, bank related information, computer hard disk.

The agency had also registered a case against Shivakumar and his family members for allegedly possessing disproportionate assets worth Rs 74.93 crore.

The probe agency had earlier asked the Congress leader to be present before it on November 23, but he requested the agency, saying that he will be in Maski and Basavakalyana Assembly constituencies on that day, where bypolls are likely to be announced soon.

In September last year, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had arrested Shivakumar in a money laundering case after interrogating him for five consecutive days.

Shivakumar had been consistently claiming that he had been framed by the Central agencies for his role in shifting Gujarat Congress MLAs to a Karnataka resort during the Rajya Sabha elections in 2017, fearing a possible poaching attempt by the BJP.

In 2018, the ED had registered a case against Shivakumar and others on the basis of chargesheet (prosecution complaint) filed by the Income Tax Department in a court for their alleged role in tax evasion and hawala transactions worth crores.

 

 

 

 

 

  

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  • AD, Mangalore

    Thu, Nov 26 2020

    I do not know why He has to be a cry baby. All you need to do DKS is join BJP.

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  • N D Shetty, Mangalore

    Thu, Nov 26 2020

    DKS is living in the delusion that he will be the next CM and can cover up the wealth he has amassed by just being a 'social worker'. So he plays a victim card when ever he is raided. 5 properties in London, 3 in Dubai. and 100 odd flats in Mumbai. Lacs of acres of estate in Bluru. are few of his 'earnings'. But Modi who does not have a house of his own is Corrupt.

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  • AM, Mangalore

    Thu, Nov 26 2020

    Waah bai waah,
    My Dear- Modi's decisions made so many people billionaires and so many people lost in rugs.
    Why Modi need a house when he has benami bunglows which can be used for him and for his cronies life long. History will remember for his Karma

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  • N D Shetty, Mangalore

    Thu, Nov 26 2020

    All the ones who you mentioned were already biliionaires in the Vadra Congress rule before 2014.

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  • N.M, Mangalore

    Thu, Nov 26 2020

    ED, CBI, ITD have become a stooge of BJP and clearly lack a spine, and these arm twisting tactics on the opposition won't work for too long.

    You will never see these institutions probe BJP leaders who have amassed crores through questionable means.

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  • anthony, Mangalore

    Thu, Nov 26 2020

    The Country is painfully aware of how the Central Agencies are being misused to target opposition Leaders and Parties.

    This is the Ugly face of Modi's Maan Ki Baat and his innocent pretensions behind TV cameras in his repeated addresses to the Nation .Central Government Tax and Enforcement Agencies like Income Tax Dept and Enforcement Directorate have rarely raided BJP Leaders over the last six years. It will be nice to know through the media if any BJP leader has been issued any IT or ED Notice during the last six years. ED or IT departments would have known that large sums of money were transacted for luring of MLAs at the time of toppling of non-BJP governments but have turned a blind eye.

    All these Light(Media Trial) and Sound(Street Protests) Shows organised by the BJP across our country by misusing these Central Agencies be it in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Kerala and now in Punjab are Attempts to misuse these Central Agencies either to Overthrow Elected Govts or Destabilise Opposition ruled states not through healthy political debates and record of their Governance during the last six years but by misusing these Central Agencies and the slow Judicial process of our Courts to Defame and Discredit Elected Representatives of opposition parties.

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  • AM, Mangalore

    Thu, Nov 26 2020

    What is this? Everyday CBI raiding only opposition leaders. There is no one corrupt in ruling BJP or any Corporates. Better everyone join BJP

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  • abdul munim, UDUPI

    Thu, Nov 26 2020

    BJp is full of saints..so no raid on them. ha ha ha

    Jai feku chaiwala...time for ganti and thaali...

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  • Gurka, Mangaluru

    Thu, Nov 26 2020

    All are the same ! but DKSeee is exceptional he move forward one step ahead and crossed his limits !! as the weak HIGHCOMMAND is in centre cant do anything about it ! There is no Head and TAIL in congress ! there is no other option left than to vote again CHAIWALA with PAKODA !!

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  • kitta, MANGALORE

    Thu, Nov 26 2020

    You can feel free to vote SogaRaga

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  • Sangram Sangam, Kundapur

    Thu, Nov 26 2020

    Janaradhan Reddy also saying i am Clean
    Roshan Baig also saying i am Clean
    Vinay kulkarni also saying i am Clean
    Suresh kalmadi also saying i am Clean
    Lalu prasad also saying i am innocent Clean
    Sampathraj also saying i am innocent
    Now Satyaharchandra of Indian Politics also saying i am clean and innocent

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  • Ajay Rebello, Kallianpur

    Thu, Nov 26 2020

    Please note not a single BJP leader in the list, even though Yeddi went to jail after court found him guilty of corruption. Also wonder where Jarkhiholi hid the money he got, probably under a cow shed.

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  • H. Almeida., Bendur/Andheri

    Thu, Nov 26 2020

    Ajai bhai, the citizens of our nation, have opened their senses...

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  • H. Almeida., Bendur/Andheri

    Thu, Nov 26 2020

    The Central agencies, namely ED, CBI, NIA, NCB are merely performing their duties to arresting crimes, corruption against the nation.....The opposition are dispirited, moaning and lamenting, accusing the government of a " Witch Hunt " The INC, in Karnataka, is absolutely disoriented, dejected, as it's find many of their luminaries, behind bars, for fermenting communal riots and scams !!!

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  • Ajay Rebello, Kallianpur

    Thu, Nov 26 2020

    Please open your eyes to read between the lines.

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  • Rational thinker, Mangalore

    Thu, Nov 26 2020

    I fully agree that D K Shivkumar is corrupt but the ruling party politicians are much more corrupt than him. My question is why selectively target only Shivkumar?
    What is thei rationale or justification for raids other than vendetta politics???

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  • Alwyn, Manglore

    Thu, Nov 26 2020

    Hello Mr. D.K. Shivakumar, if you have millions of corrupt money, just be safe. My advice to you is straightforward, and that joins BJP and take shelter of Amith Modis's wings.

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