MYSURU: Even as the (MUDA) sites scam has hit headlines, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s extended family members are upset and accuse a larger conspiracy by BJP and JDS to unseat Siddaramaiah. Raghu, son of Siddaramaiah’s brother Rame Gowda, on Tuesday said the decision of his aunt (Doddamma) Parvathi BM , to return 14 sites to the Mysore Urban Development Authority was right. She wrote a letter to the MUDA commissioner on Monday, asking the Authority to take back the site even as the Directorate of Enforcement (ED), earlier in the day, registered an FIR against Siddaramaiah, her and others over in the MUDA site allotment issue.
The Lokayukta too has taken up the investigation into alleged irregularities in the allotment of sites in upmarket Vijayanagar area by MUDA to Parvathi, in lieu of her three acres and 16 guntas of land acquired by the Authority. Raghu said Siddaramaiah has not entertained any family member on any request since he entered politics in 1983. “We have not gone asking for anything.
If we had done that, we could have led a life of luxury. I did not have to buy a motorbike on loan,” he added. He said his aunt is upset over the developments in the MUDA issue and that was the reason she surrendered the sites.
“She does not interfere in anything,” he added. Raghu alleged that a few politicians who are upset with the implementation of the guarantee schemes for the poor have hatched a plot to corner Siddaramaiah. Siddaramu, who is Chief Minister’s cou.