Congress taunts Modi government for protecting mining Reddy brothers

Team Udayavani, Apr 25, 2018, 10:32 AM IST

Bengaluru: The decision Congress insulted the Narendra Modi government for letting off Karnataka’s controversial Reddy brothers and fielding three of them for the upcoming state assembly polls.

Congress media in-control Randeep Singh Surjewala said “The Modi government has turned into the promoter, defender, safeguard of the Bellary Gang (Reddy siblings) for denuding Kannadigas of their rich natural resources through its manikin CBI,” 

Naming the iron ore mining scam, the biggest scam in Karnataka Surjewala said the then guard dog Justice Santosh Hegde exposed the unholy nexus of BJP’s chief BS Yeddyurappa with the Reddy brothers.

“The state Lokayukta’s report of July 27, 2011 prompted the expulsion of Yeddyurappa as the BJP’s first Chief Minister in the south on July 31, 2011. No big surprise Yeddyurappa and Reddy brothers are criminals,” said Surjewala. 

Blaming the BJP for deceiving Kannadigas and defending the Reddy brothers, the party official said iron ore esteemed at Rs 35,000 crore was mined, extracted and sold to national and international markets illegally. 

The Congress government asked the CBI on November 18, 2013 to probe into the shameless plunder of iron-ore and redirecting Rs 35,000 crore by sale and export of iron ore through 9 sea ports such as Karwar and New Mangaluru Port Trust on the west coast, in coastal Karnataka, Panaji and Murmagoa in Goa, Ennor and Chennai in Tamil Nadu and Krishna Pattanam; Vishakhapatnam and Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh.

Our government has shown the courage of conviction to prosecute and punish the looters of precious natural resources of Karnataka, he added.