The former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, who along with JD(S) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda, has been talking about alleged irregularities in the Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise (NICE) road project, announced on Saturday that he would meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah and seek a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the alleged scam.
A House panel led by the former Law Minister T.B. Jayachandra had recommended a CBI probe into the alleged scam in 2016. “Recently, Mr. Jayachandra got a threat call for speaking on behalf of farmers. Who is behind the threat call needs to be probed,” Mr. Kumaraswamy said. He said he had collected a huge cache of documents showing how farmers had been swindled of their fertile land and would submit the documents to the Prime Minister.
