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Ballari-based miner and activistic Tapal Ganesh has written to the Governor of Karnataka and the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, seeking the contiguous disqualification of Gali Janardhan Reddy, MLA for Gangavathi and erstwhile State Minister, due to the fact that Reddy allegedly violated the oath helium had taken arsenic a legislator to support Karnataka’s boundaries, land, and h2o resources, and engaged successful large-scale amerciable mining during his tenure.
In his elaborate practice dated October 31, Ganesh said helium was “questioning the oath taken” by Reddy betwixt 2008 and 2011, erstwhile helium served arsenic a Minister, and alleged that “he himself violated his oath taken earlier the Governor of Karnataka”. The missive stated that Reddy, arsenic manager of the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) and past Minister for Tourism and Infrastructure, facilitated the encroachment of wood onshore successful Tumti and Vittalapura villages of Sandur taluk and permitted the extraction of robust ore from the Karnataka broadside nether mining permits issued by Andhra Pradesh.
Ganesh claimed that 29 lakh tonnes of robust ore, valued astatine ₹884 crore, were illegally extracted, causing dense nonaccomplishment to the Karnataka exchequer. He cited findings of the CBI Special Court, Hyderabad, successful C.C. No. 1 of 2012 (the Obulapuram mining case), which connected May 6, 2025, convicted Reddy and others for offences nether the IPC, the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, and the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
The missive reproduces portions of the court’s judgement and witnesser depositions, including those of Ganesh and his brother, that, according to him, found Reddy’s nonstop engagement successful encroachment, intimidation of neighbouring leaseholders, and amerciable excavation of ore from wood areas connected the Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh border.
Ganesh submitted that these actions magnitude to an maltreatment of nationalist bureau and are successful usurpation of Section 8 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 and Article 191 of the Constitution of India, and truthful warrant Reddy’s disqualification from the Assembly.
He attached a missive dated September 24, 2025, from the Director of Mines and Geology, Karnataka, implicit the betterment of ₹ 884 crore from OMC and its radical companies for the amerciable extraction of robust ore from the Sandur clump leases.
“I person nary idiosyncratic grudge against Mr. Reddy oregon his family. But arsenic a national and unfortunate of Reddy’s amerciable mining, I person each close to question a nationalist typical who took an oath earlier the Governor to support Karnataka’s land, forests and water, and past violated that precise oath done his actions. The nonaccomplishment is not conscionable financial; it is simply a usurpation of nationalist trust,” Ganesh told The Hindu implicit phone.
Copies of the practice person been sent to the Chief Secretary of Karnataka, the Election Commission of India, and the State Law Minister.
