Possible Arrest By ED: “Will Not Run Away Like A Thief”, Says Karnataka Minister D K Shivakumar, Then Rushes To Delhi

Amid speculation that Enforcement Directorate (ED) is planning to arrest Congress strongman and Minister for Medical Education and Water Resources, D K Shivakumar on the charges of money laundering and corruption. Shivakumar has since rushed to New Delhi and plans to hold talks with senior Supreme Court advocates and Congress leaders, Kapil Sibal, and Abhishek Manu Singhvi.

He is expected to seek help in putting up a stiff legal resistance. Shivakumar is also likely to meet Congress’s chief troubleshooter, Ahmed Patel to update him on the details of the cases he has been facing. He is also meeting the Congress President, Rahul Gandhi, who is returned after what is said to be a pilgrimage to Manasa Sarovar.

Addressing the media at this Sadashiva Nagar residence in Bengaluru, on Sunday morning, Shivakumar claimed that he had done nothing wrong. He charged that he will not be felled by any political conspiracy.

Shivakumar said he will not run away like a thief, and that for money recovered in they houses of his friends, income tax had been paid. "I am not involved with illegal money transfer, and I have not received any notice from enforcement directorate. I do not have property in foreign countries, but have three houses in New Delhi, but no money was found in these houses," he claimed.

On Saturday, Congress MP from Bengaluru Rural Constituency D K Suresh has expressed apprehension that he and his brother Shivakumar, may be arrested by central agencies as part of the BJP’s vendetta politics.

Addressing a press conference in Bengaluru, Suresh alleged that “At any cost, they want to arrest Shivakumar and destabilise the Congress-JD(S) coalition in Karnataka. To do this, BJP leaders are misusing the IT department, ED and CBI.”

Suresh also charged that IT department, ED and the CBI have been reduced to a handmaiden of the central government and has become “morchas of the BJP”.