Mangalore: The Bharathiya Janatha Party (BJP) on Monday, May 9th called a Press meet at its city office in Akshay Bhawan hall to place documents before reporters on matters relating to decade long plunder of iron ore mines in Bellary and other areas of Karnataka and to tell who were responsible for this ‘golmal’ episodes that create headaches among MLAs and political parties.
Former BJP state head, D.V Sadananda Gowda, MP from Udupi chaired the event of explaining to the people at large on Iron ore industrial scandals that raised a stink in political circles. Gowda revealed that Iron ore and granite mining was going on since 20 years without rest, on a very large scale, involving crores of rupees in capital and earnings. Congress and JDS had powerful lobbies (or Sabis mafia) to make hay while the Sun was shining. He accused them of conniving with executives/officials to make a mining a gold deposit to loot. No corrective action was taken by them, as they joined the looters of earth at the cost of state treasury.
DK BJP chief Padmanabha Kottari, City MP Nalin Kumar Kateelu, Captain Ganesh Karnik, MLC Nithesh Kumar Rai, Gopal, Prasad Kumar and Frankiln Montero among others were present.