A day after the State government decided to withdraw consent given to the CBI to investigate the alleged disproportionate assets cases against Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, the combined Opposition has slammed the decision.
“The government is behaving as if it is protecting thieves. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has worked as an advocate and a law college faculty, but the decision taken in the Cabinet is not appropriate,” former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy told reporters at Ramanagar, near here on Friday. “There are multiple decisions of the Supreme Court. Already, the High Court has twice not accepted the argument of Mr. Shivakumar to quash the CBI investigation. Does the Chief Minister not know about this? When the matter is sensitive and in the court, the government taking such decisions and showing urgency is wrong,” he said.
Stating that the decision is an exhibition to show that they are bigger than the law, Mr. Kumaraswamy said: “These are people who oppose the law. This decision has shown that the government is not in favour of the poor and wants to help those looting.”
