Yeddyurappa Accuses Siddaramaiah Of Accepting Kickbacks For Steel Flyover

Former Karnataka Chief Minister and leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), B S Yeddyurappa accused current Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of the Congress of taking kickbacks of Rs 65 crore while awarding the Steel Flyover project that has been mired in controversy. The accusation came in shortly after the former CM accused the incumbent of sending Rs 1,000 crore to the Congress High Command in New Delhi.

Siddaramaiah responded to the allegations as baseless, promising to retire from politics if the charges were proven. Yeddyurappa has alleged that Rs 150 crore was given to middlemen in the project of which Rs 65 crore was given to the CM. He also stated that the BJP would organise street protests to highlight the current government’s corruption.

Yeddyurappa claimed that he had a copy of a diary, allegedly belonging to a Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) who had been raided by the Income Tax Department in January and was under investigation by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

The Steel Flyover project, nonetheless, has come to symbolise everything wrong with the Siddaramaiah government: allegations of corruption, lack of vision, and a sense of drift into decay.

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