Updated: October 11, 2020 7:37:55 pm
Congressional spokesman Abhishek Singhvi called it a case of “blatant, blatant and blatant corruption coupled with blatant inaction and silence”, in response to a report in The Sunday Express, and demanded an investigation into the matter by a “Acting Supreme Court or Chief Justice of a higher court”.
On Sunday, Congress demanded the dismissal of Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa in the following reports that two companies in which his grandson Shashidhar Mardi became a director after BJP came to power in the state in July 2019 and received Rs 5 crore from seven Kolkata shell companies between March and July 2020.
Congressional spokesman Abhishek Singhvi called it a case of “blatant, blatant and blatant corruption coupled with blatant inaction and silence,” in response to a report in The Sunday Express, demanding an investigation into the matter by a President of the Supreme Court of Justice ”.
“If you have nothing to fear, why are you not naming? Why not register a FIR under the Corruption Prevention Act? Singhvi said while addressing a press conference. He said that if BJP and Yediyurappa had the “slightest” and “slightest” sense of shame, “you should either resign or be fired.”
The Indian Express reported Sunday on the chain of transactions that was featured in documents filed with the Registrar of Companies (RoC). RoC documents examined by The Sunday Express show that Rs 5 crore was transferred through seven Kolkata companies to Belgravia Enterprises Pvt Ltd and VSS Estates Pvt Ltd, where Shashidhar Mardi is a director. Mardi, 30, is the son of Yediyurappa’s daughter, Padmavathi V Y.
Kolkata businesses share common addresses based on filings with the RoC, but The Sunday Express visited the locations and found that none of them operated from there. Leases submitted by VSS Estates and Belgravia have the same Bengaluru address as on June 15, 2020.
In attacking the BJP, Singhvi said: “Bad governance and corruption go hand in hand as Mahatma Gandhi had said and this has become the signature of the Karnataka government.” Singhvi also asked why Prime Minister Narendra Modi was silent on the issue. “The Prime Minister has maintained an incriminating silence,” he said.
Last month, a private television channel had alleged in a series of reports that the money was part of a quid pro quo for the promise of obtaining government authorization for RCCL, a private company, to build a government housing project in 660 million rupees in Bangalore. . Speaking to The Sunday Express, Mardi called the money “working loans for a project” for which “all documentation” has been provided.
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