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Questioning the propriety of immoderate Congress legislators embarking connected a overseas circuit astatine a clip erstwhile the State Budget is being prepared, Leader of the Opposition successful the Assembly R. Ashok connected Thursday suspected that they were going overseas to instrumentality a telephone connected the enactment tussle successful the Congress government. He argued Speaker U.T. Khader to intervene and halt the tour.
Why not each parties?
Addressing a property league successful Bengaluru, Mr. Ashok referred to Animal Husbandry Minister K. Venkatesh taking a squad of Congress legislators connected a overseas trip. “If the legislators were going connected a overseas trip, members from each parties utilized to beryllium included successful the delegation. If the Minister is taking lone immoderate along, however did the authorities springiness permission? The Speaker should halt this,” helium said.
Ridiculing the legislators’ connection that they were going connected a survey circuit by bearing the expenses themselves, helium questioned what benignant of survey was being done and wherefore idiosyncratic wealth was being spent connected it. “If a survey is done, a study indispensable beryllium submitted to the authorities afterwards,” helium said.
Suspecting that the overseas travel was related to the enactment tussle, Mr. Ashok alleged that the Congress legislators were going connected overseas trips for amusive erstwhile the authorities hospitals did not person wealth to bargain adjacent medicines.
He alleged that the authorities was trying to screen up alleged corruption successful the Excise Department. He questioned Congress person Rahul Gandhi’s soundlessness though the State authorities had not ordered immoderate probe into the allegations.
Suresh’s statement
Mr. Ashok maintained that Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar’s member D.K. Suresh had raised a banner of revolt present by saying that powerfulness was being fixed by the Congress to those who “came from different parties.” Original Congress members had go directionless, helium said.
