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Irregularities: JD (U) to move Governor

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The State unit of the Janata Dal (United) will urge Governor T.N. Chaturvedi to recommend the dismissal of the coalition Government and facilitate a CBI inquiry into the alleged irregularities by the S.M. Krishna Government as revealed in a World Bank report and the alleged irregularities in the Upper Krishna Project highlighted by the Estimates Committee of the tenth Legislative Assembly when the Janata Dal was in power.

Janata Dal (U) State President B. Somashekar told presspersons on Thursday that a delegation of the party would submit a memorandum to Mr. Chaturvedi to that effect shortly.

Mr. Krishna had no right to continue as Governor of Maharashtra as he had denigrated his position and transgressed the constitutional sanctity by passing political remarks on another coalition Government, he said.

Mr. Krishna could be faulted on two counts.

He had reportedly stated that he committed a mistake by not ordering an inquiry into the alleged Rs. 400-crore irregularities in the award of piecework contracts in the Upper Krishna Project.

He had also committed an equally serious omission by ignoring the report of the World Bank despite knowing the details. Referring to the reported claims of the Government on the Bhoomi project, he said that Deputy Chief Minister M.P. Prakash was in the know of the project which had not been given a name when it was launched.

It was conceived and implemented by the Janata Dal Government in 1999 in which he was the Revenue Minister.

The project was launched in Gulbarga and Chitradurga districts simultaneously on May 27, 1999.

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