Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday (Aug 11) said his government has ordered a judicial inquiry led by retired High Court judge Justice B. Veerappa into the alleged scams that have taken place during the previous BJP government, and it is improper to release payments of the civil contractors’ pending bills till the probe is over.
“Before the Assembly elections, we had promised to investigate the corruption scandals of the BJP government if the Congress party came to power,” Mr. Siddaramaiah said in a series of posts on ‘X’ (formerly Twitter).
He said that the voters of the State believed in the Congress party and voted against BJP’s “corruption, commission abuse, tax looting” and helped his party win 135 seats in the Assembly and allowed it to form a “safe and stable” government.
