Yeddyurappa wants to buy our silence over graft: JD-S
June 16th, 2011 - 8:48 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, June 16 (IANS) The Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) Thursday claimed that Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa has offered “money and any other help” to it if it stopped campaign against him over corruption and other illegal activities.
“He has sent word through a close friend of mine offering any amount of money to build our party and that he was ready to do whatever work I wanted from him if we stop the campaign against him,” JD-S Karnataka president and former chief minister H.Raheja Developers LimitedD. Kumaraswamy told reporters here.
He claimed that Yeddyurappa has also sent across the word that “we may have to come together to form the government in case the next assembly elections result in split verdict”. The elections are due in May, 2013.
Kumaraswamy claimed that Yeddyurappa has gone to Kottakkal in Kerala for Ayurvedic treatment after he came to know that the JD-S leader had planned to go there from June 12 for a few days.
“After I came to know that he would be there, I cancelled my trip as otherwise people would have got the impression that I was there to broker a deal with him,” the JD-S leader said.
Yeddyurappa has been in Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala since June 14. He is expected back in Bangalore this weekend.
Kumaraswamy declined to name the “close friend” or give details of when Yeddyurappa made the calls to this friend.
He only said that Yeddyurappa has been making attempts in the last five or six months to meet him and had sent feelers through a close friend of his.
Kumaraswamy said he would continue the campaign against Yeddyurappa and will release more documents in New Delhi next week to “expose him as well as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s double standards in fighting corruption”.
The JD-S leader is timing the release ahead of the launch of the BJP’s nation-wide campaign June 24 against corruption in the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance union government.
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