Gadag: Former Chief Minister and MP Basavaraj Bommai demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation into the MUDA sites allocation scandal and said why the Congress leaders are scared if they haven’t done anything wrong.

Speaking to the media here on Saturday, he opined if there were no scandal in the MUDA site allocations and no truth to the allegations, such a major controversy would not have come to the fore. Why there should be any hesitation to investigate through an independent agency if there is nothing to hide?

Bommai said there was a difference between an inquiry and an investigation. The MUDA scandal be subjected to a thorough investigation. Let there be a complete inquiry into which exchange sites are in MUDA, under what circumstances, and to whom the sites were allocated. The case should be handed over to the CBI.

He pointed out that the media has clearly shown the details of this scandal. Let Chief Minister Siddaramaiah say what he wants regarding this issue, but there has been a clear violation of the law concerning which sites should be obtained in which layouts. Party leaders have read and explained the legal violations. “50:50 allocations should be made in certain layouts, but this has not been not followed. On the prima facie, the rule violation is evident. The question remains about the circumstances and methods of how the sites were obtained.

About the arrest of former minister B. Nagendra in the Valmiki Corporation scandal, Bommai said that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is conducting the investigation. “Initially, former minister Nagendra was given a clean chit, but now his involvement is evident, and he has been arrested. The MLA and corporation chairman Basangouda Daddal was also said to be not involved, but now that has been proven otherwise. The deeper they dig into this case, the more details emerge. The financial department’s role will become clear in the coming days. The ED will continue its investigation.

On tourism department scandal, Bommai stated that he had no information about it.