The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : BJP, JD(S) responsible for Sakrama mess: Congress

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BJP, JD(S) responsible for Sakrama mess: Congress

Special Correspondent

Bangalore: The former Congress MLAs from Bangalore city on Friday alleged that the Janata Dal (Secular)-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition Government was responsible for the Sakrama mess and said that the scheme was the brainchild of the two parties and the Congress had nothing do with it.

Addressing presspersons here, Ramalinga Reddy, Dinesh Gundu Rao, N.L. Narendra Babu, former MLAs, and P.R. Ramesh, former Mayor, accused BJP leaders and former Ministers R. Ashok and Katta Subramanya Naidu of misleading the people by launching agitations against the scheme.

Though the scheme was planned during the Dharam Singh regime, the amendments to the Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act were introduced by the Kumaraswamy Government in the Belgaum session of the State Legislature for regularisation of unauthorised constructions, they claimed. Stating that the BJP had no moral right to protest against the scheme, the Congress leaders said the BJP was trying to make an issue of it with an eye on the coming elections.Mr. Reddy alleged that the Kumaraswamy Government had fixed exorbitant fee to regularise unauthorised constructions.

Instead of fixing a uniform fee, the government had fixed different penalties for regularisation of unauthorised sites, conversion of non-agricultural lands, change of land use and residential and non-residential building violations, which created confusion among the public.

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