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Drop Belamagi from Ministry: CPI(M)

GULBARGA: Maruti Manpade, State secretariat member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), alleged on Tuesday that Minister for Library and Adult Education Revu Naik Belamagi was supporting the cultivation of ganja on a large scale in agricultural lands owned by him and his brothers at Belamagi tanda in Aland taluk of Gulbarga district.

Demanding that Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa drop Mr. Belamagi from the Ministry, Mr. Manpade said that the Minister was using his clout to prevent the police from taking any action against his family members.

The police and Excise Department officials had recently raided the fields in Belamagi tanda on specific information and destroyed the crop there.

Mr. Manpade told presspersons here that although ganja plants were found on the lands owned by the Minister and his brothers, the police had filed cases against Denu Naik Belamagi, his nephew and president of the Belamagi gram panchayat.

The ganja cultivation had been going on for several years and the produce was being transported to Mumbai where it fetched a high price. “We urge the State Government to hand over the ganja cultivation case to the Central Bureau of Investigation to unearth the truth. We do not have faith in the local police,” he said.

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