Bangalore: CM B.S Yeddyurappa has accepted the resignation letter of his close friend, Katta Subramanya Naidu, IT/BT Minister, soon after the Lokayukta officials filed an FIR against Naidu in a land scam, for which his son was already in jail.
CM stated publicly today that to facilitate Lokayukta probe, he had forwarded Katta’s resignation for acceptance to the state governor.
The FIR has nine other names apart from the Minister. KIADB is involved in the land purchase deal which led Katta Jagdish to go behind bars. Irregularities in the deal are not rectified by KIADB.
The land deal of 385 acres to his aides by Naidu in a SEZ had taken place in 2007. Jagdish Naidu has secured a bail from KHC after his arrest,. Katta is the 3rd Minister to leave his post in shame, after Halappa and Ramachandra Gowda.