Mysuru:
A proposal by the Mysuru Metropolis Company council to call a stretch of highway within the metropolis after Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has evoked robust objections.
In response to official sources, the proposal requires naming a stretch of KRS Street from the Lakshmi Venkataramanaswamy temple to the Outer Ring Street junction as ‘Siddaramaiah Arogya Marga’.
Primarily based on a suggestion by Chamaraja Congress MLA Harish Gowda, the Mysuru Metropolis Company (MCC) took the choice at its assembly on November 22.
The matter was first positioned earlier than the Mysuru deputy commissioner previous to being tabled within the council assembly. The MCC then issued a newspaper discover inviting views from the general public on the proposal inside 30 days on December 13, the sources stated.
Mysuru is the house district of Siddaramaiah, who’s serving his second time period because the chief minister.
The JD(S) referred to as the transfer to call the KRS Street within the historic metropolis of Mysuru as ‘Siddaramaiah Arogya Marga’ condemnable.
Declaring that Siddaramaiah is an accused within the MUDA web site allotment case and is dealing with probe by the Lokayukta police, the opposition get together stated in a publish on X, “There isn’t any elected board within the Mysuru Metropolis Company. The officers appointed by the Congress authorities have determined to call the highway after Siddaramaiah as they’re indebted to him.” Naming a highway after the “corrupt” chief minister, who’s concerned within the MUDA rip-off, is a “betrayal and insult” not solely to the historic metropolis of Mysuru, but additionally to the complete state, the JD(S) alleged.
RTI activist Snehamayi Krishna, on whose grievance a case was registered within the alleged MUDA web site allotment rip-off, stated the highway for which Siddaramaiah’s identify is proposed is “historic”, as Maharaja Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar donated an enormous swathe of land and established a tuberculosis hospital there in reminiscence of his sister Princess Krishnajammanni and her kids who succumbed to TB.
Talking to reporters, Mr Krishna stated, “The officers have determined to call a highway after Siddaramaiah, who’s an accused within the MUDA case, regardless of not having any energy to take action. A number of residents have expressed their objections to the proposal. I am additionally preventing towards it legally. If the proposal isn’t dropped, we are going to problem it within the excessive courtroom and search motion towards the involved officers.” Siddaramaiah is dealing with allegations of illegalities within the allotment of 14 websites to his spouse Parvathi B M by the Mysuru City Improvement Authority (MUDA).
Siddaramaiah, his spouse, brother-in-law Mallikarjuna Swamy and Devaraju — from whom Swamy had bought a land and gifted it to Parvathi — and others have been named in an FIR registered by the Mysuru-located Lokayukta police on September 27, following a particular courtroom order.
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