Bengaluru: Karnataka BJP has linked the raids on the Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara owned education institutions to the gold smuggling case involving Kannada actress Ranya Rao.
While addressing a press conference, the Leader of the Opposition, R. Ashoka, made the statement in this regard, slamming the Congress-led government’s failure in Karnataka in the last two years.
Answering a question, Ashoka said the Siddhartha Educational Institutions are being investigated in connection with the gold smuggling case.
The ED is a government investigating agency. It is established in the investigation that the gold was brought here and given to many persons. They might have got the information on the gold smuggling money being invested in the Siddhartha Education institutions, Ashoka stated.
“Action must be taken against everyone involved. Congress leaders are not afraid even in cases like the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) and Valmiki Corporation scams. Those guilty must be made to face the consequences,” he appealed.
Let the investigation be continued, and the probe must be more effective, and all those involved must be punished, he demanded.
The ED raided education institutions owned by Home Minister Parameshwara on Wednesday morning. The Congress has slammed the BJP-led government at the Centre, criticising that it’s an act of frustration.
The National General Secretary and Karnataka In-Charge Randeep Singh Surjewala taking to social media X on Wednesday slammed, “The ED raids on the Educational Institutions of Karnataka’s Home Minister, G. Parameshwara, one of the tallest SC Leaders, is a frustrated reaction of BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi Govt to giving of ownership rights to 1 Lakh SC-ST families yesterday (May 20) at Hospet.”
He further said that the constant assault on the Constitution and leaders of SC-ST-OBC communities across India has become a habitual pattern.
“The revenge-seeking against Parameshwara is part of this sinister design,” he maintained.
The raids were conducted at Home Minister Parameshwara’s Siddhartha Medical College in Heggare and Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology (SSIT) in Saraswathipuram, Tumakuru city.