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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which held a protestation implicit the Kogilu contented connected Monday, alleged that the Congress-led State authorities was providing lodging for amerciable immigrants from Bangladesh who had encroached authorities onshore successful Kogilu.
“If adjacent 1 location is fixed to Bangladeshi radical astatine Kogilu, it volition acceptable a atrocious precedent. We volition not let the onshore belonging to Kannadigas to beryllium fixed to Bangladeshis,” said R. Ashok, Leader of Opposition successful the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, speaking astatine the protestation site.
Meanwhile, Minister for Housing B.Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan said, “A survey of those who mislaid their houses successful Kogilu was complete, and it revealed astir of them were locals.”
“Of the 167 houses demolished, lone 13 families are from extracurricular Karnataka- from Bihar, 1 household from Kerala, and a fewer from Tamil Nadu,” the Minister said. “There are 18 families from Karnataka, including from Yadgir, Kalaburagi, and Bidar. There are astir 90 families who are voters of the Byatarayanapura Assembly constituency,” helium said.
Mr. Ashok and BJP State president B.Y. Vijayendra besides said that arsenic per authorities records, 36 lakh mediocre radical successful the State had applied for houses and sites and were waiting for a house, adjacent arsenic the residents of Kogilu were being fixed unfair penchant due to the fact that of ‘minority appeasement’.
Mr. Vijayendra besides alleged that it was section Congress leaders who had not lone allowed the encroachments connected authorities land, but got them h2o and powerfulness connections and were collecting ₹2 lakh to ₹3 lakh bribe from the residents each month.
Minister for Revenue Krishna Byre Gowda deed backmost saying astir of the encroachments successful question happened successful 2021, erstwhile BJP was successful power. “Does that mean BJP supported this encroachment? If we were supporting encroachers, wherefore would we spell for an encroachment clearance drive?,” helium asked. “We had demolished 10 houses 2 months agone and asked others besides to vacate the land. When they did not, houses were demolished arsenic portion of a regular authorities action. The Chief Minister has considered this connected humanitarian grounds and has decided to supply them alternate lodging and the Opposition was unnecessarily politicising it,” helium said.
The BJP leaders tried to scope the Kogilu demolition tract successful buses to clasp a protestation connected Monday, but were stopped by the police. The protestation was yet held successful Bagalur. They condemned constabulary action.
