Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 31 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader CN Ashwath Narayan slammed the Karnataka government on Friday, calling it non-functional for its ‘inability to take action’ over Maharishi Valmiki Corporation official’s death and demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.
Speaking to the media here, the former deputy chief minister of Karnataka said, “Probably in the history of India, pre-independence or post-independence such a kind of scam where directly drawing of money, transferring of money or opening of an account to benami accounts is really surprising.”
“And to expose this scam, an officer has to lose his life. In his death note, he mentioned how this government has been functioning, how the minister has been involved, and this government, how is officially involved. The Chief Minister is directly accountable since he is the finance minister,” said Ashwath Narayan.
Adding further he said, “Even after 5 days, the Chief Minister has not taken action, the minister should have been arrested. The government is completely non-functional. The Chief Minister should resign.”
Chandrasekaran (45), a resident of the Kenchappa colony in Vinobanagar, allegedly died by suicide on May 26 after leaving a note containing an allegation of multi-crore corruption in the corporation. Chandrasekaran was a superintendent with the MVDC and was posted at its Bengaluru office.
Earlier in the day, Karnataka Education Minister Madhu Bangarappa visited the residence of Chandrasekhar.
The minister said that the state government would help the family to get justice for the victim.
“I visited Chandrasekhar’s residence as per the instruction of the Chief Minister. The government has said that it will do whatever kind of help it needs, and it will do justice. I will do whatever cooperation is required from the government, I will do whatever work is required from my side,” Bangarappa told reporters after visiting the family.
“Such an incident should not happen, the investigation is going on, let the investigation be done, and those who have done wrong should be punished,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Crime Investigation Department on Wednesday inspected Chandrasekaran’s residence.
Chandrasekaran’s bag was found during evidence verification. A pen drive, laptop, and other items were found in the bag. His wife Kavitha said that the name of MD Padmanabhan of Valmiki Corporation was on the pen drive.
The family members asked what was in the pen drive, but the officers did not show it. Officers informed that they had to come to the police station after half an hour to sign the confiscated items.
The family members of Chandrasekaran said that this action of the authorities raised suspicion.
Earlier, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar said that the Home Minister and Chief Minister have already ordered for an inquiry and whoever may have done this, will be punished.”We have got the death note. The Home Minister and Chief Minister have already ordered an inquiry, and we have taken it seriously to investigate it. Whoever may have done this, will be punished,” he said.
Chandrasekaran allegedly wrote a six-page suicide note before dying suicide on Sunday evening. He also mentioned the names of three officials in the death note and revealed the secret of multi-crore corruption. A case has been registered in this regard at Vinobanagar police station.
Chandrasekaran’s suicide has led to a loud political row in the state with the BJP targeting the state government.
Karnataka BJP chief BY Vijayendra demanded a transparent investigation into the officer’s death.
Karnataka Minister B Nagendra said that the action will be taken based on the CID and FSL report. (ANI)
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