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Taking objection to posters with mentions of his household members that person allegedly travel up astir Bidadi, Union Minister for Heavy Industries H.D. Kumaraswamy connected Wednesday accused Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar of being down a “smear campaign.” The JD(S) has besides urged radical to enactment successful the padayatra connected June 21 from Anchipura to Hosuru, successful which Nikhil Kumaraswamy volition beryllium participating.
The posters carried his and his lad Nikhil Kumaraswamy’s photograph and claimed that some owned 100 acres, helium said.
“I had assumed that aft becoming the Chief Minister, helium would halt resorting to specified tactics, but helium has not. I volition not beryllium weakened by the idiosyncratic attacks and my combat volition lone go intense,” the Union Minister told presspersons here.
Stating that defaming was the past edifice of those who were incapable of confronting issues politically, helium said, “This is precisely what Mr. Shivakumar is doing by indulging successful a poster run to malign me. They person utilized my wife’s photographs.” He claimed that posters were besides enactment up against R. Ashoka, Chalavadi Narayanswamy and B.Y. Vijayendra.
The Union Minister claimed that the full grade of onshore successful his sanction was 46 acres, which helium purchased 4 decades back. “Anita Kumaraswamy (his wife) has purchased astir 37 acres,” helium said. Pointing fingers astatine the Chief Minister, helium alleged, “This is the antheral with the dubious past of grabbing onshore by obtaining the thumb content of a deceased person. The aforesaid idiosyncratic who usurped onshore successful Benniganahalli is present getting posters enactment up done his associates.”
