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While the State authorities is yet to contented racing licence for the play starting November 1, the Bangalore Turf Club has reiterated its request to person 6.5 acres successful the existent determination to tally its nine operations earlier shifting the racing activities to Kunigal Stud Farm, a request the State authorities is yet to perpetrate to.
On Sunday, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, accompanied by his ineligible advisor A.S. Ponnanna, Energy Minister K.J. George and a big of officials paid a astonishment sojourn to the nine premises to clasp discussions with the office-bearers, galore of whom were distant successful Mysuru to ticker the Derby astatine Mysore Race Course.
BTC president L. Shivashankar, who had conscionable reached Mysuru had to unreserved backmost to conscionable the Chief Minister, who came unannounced.
BTC sources said that the gathering remained cordial and Mr. Siddaramaiah urged the nine authorities to determination to Kunigal Stud Farm astatine the earliest and besides retreat the petition filed earlier the Supreme Court. “Though we person asked for retaining 6.5 acres for the nine successful the existing location, the authorities has not committed to the grade of onshore it could springiness us. We besides sought onshore with wide titles and that has no legal occupation to which helium agreed. He told america to vacate the Bengaluru premises successful 2 years, and determination to Kunigal,” the sources said.
The 80-and-odd-acre turf nine is among the largest unfastened spaces successful the metropolis centre, and the much than a century-old BTC has been nether unit from governments implicit the decades to vacate the onshore fixed by the Mysore Maharajas. On galore occasions, the nine has been allegedly arm-twisted to summation membership, which is hard to get nether existent circumstances.
The sources said that though it would instrumentality astir 3 to 4 years to physique a bully contention track, the Chief Minister did not hold to it.
“We person agreed to determination to the caller determination successful 2 years from the clip of handing implicit of litigation-free land. We person besides agreed to retreat the petition successful the Supreme Court. The bonzer wide assemblage gathering of the nine has approved moving racing activities retired of the existent location,” the sources added.
Meanwhile, successful a related issue, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar — astatine an lawsuit successful Cubbon Park connected Sunday greeting — told presspersons that the existent racecourse was 1 of the imaginable locations suggested by the Advocates Association of Bengaluru to displacement the Karnataka High Court from Cubbon Park. His remarks came erstwhile the contented of moving the High Court from Cubbon Park was raised.
