Karnataka   

Drop Sudhakar from Cabinet: Kodandaramaiah

Chitradurga: The former MP and Congress leader P. Kodandaramaiah has urged Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to drop Minister for Muzrai and Endowment D. Sudhakar from the Cabinet.

Mr. Kodandaramaiah told presspersons here on Saturday that the former Social Welfare Minister Sudhakar, who was stripped of his portfolio following the death of 23 inmates of the beggars' home in Bangalore, is incompetent and should be dropped from the State Cabinet. He alleged that Mr. Sudhakar had misused funds reserved for the development of Scheduled Castes and Tribes. And, according to Mr. Kodandaramaiah a fraud case against Mr. Sudhakar was pending with the CBI. “If the Chief Minister has removed Mr. Sudhakar from social welfare ministry, it means that the Minister had failed to discharge his duties properly. Considering this, the Chief Minister should drop him from the Cabinet”, he said.

Expressing shock over the death of several inmates of the beggars' home in a short period, Mr. Kodandaramaiah said he suspected that something was amiss in the beggars' home. “We have heard of food poisoning in the midday meal because of the which children have taken ill but there have never been mass deaths”, he said.

He also took exception to the reports that the Government had not ordered an autopsy to be done on the bodies, terming the beggars' death “natural”. The district unit of the Congress would launch a protest in the district and Hiriyur taluk, which is represented by Mr. Sudhakar, demanding his ouster from the Cabinet.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

“Plans afoot to send inmates of beggars' centre to home States”
Fur flies in age-old battle
Congress supports BJP in Karwar CMC election
‘Encourage cultivation of cashew'
Dandeli forest declared protected area for hornbills
Drug nexus: CBI probe demanded
Two brothers hacked to death in Chickballapur
Drop Sudhakar from Cabinet: Kodandaramaiah
Bus-stands for all taluk, district headquarters
Driving school in Davangere proposed
JD(S) wins elections to Harihar CMC posts
Man cheated
Not a convincing ringside view

Copyright © 2010, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu