The IT department is robbing our Bangalore supporters: CM-designate DK Shivakumar
D K Shivakumar, the KPCC’s deputy chief minister, launched an assault on the Income Tax (IT) department, claiming that detectives working as “agents of BJP” had been politically motivated to investigate his supporters’ homes in Kanakapura, Bangalore Rural LS seat, over the previous three or four days.
“The only people concerned about me and my party are the IT sleuths. Have any leaders of the BJP and NDA been raided? Their supervisors want to harass us, so they did what they were told. “Are NDA candidates only allocating Rs 85 lakh in each segment, as reported by the ECI?” he inquired.
In response to a question at a press conference hosted by the Press Club of Bengaluru, Shivakumar said that IT geeks have been intimidating bank presidents of District Central Cooperative banks and company owners. “The BJP is afraid of losing the Lok Sabha elections, so it is using the ED and IT departments as weapons.” We are used to that; it occurs in every election,” MP and Congress candidate DK Suresh said. Suresh said that the BJP is abusing the IT department to target Congress politicians in a statement he made to the media in Ramanagara.
That is among the BJP’s arsenal of weapons. They have no idea about anything other than IT, ED, and CBI, and they fear losing since no one, not even the PM, can properly respond to their accomplishments over the last ten years, he said. He claimed that despite its efforts, the BJP has not been able to diminish Congress followers.
IT detectives had searched M D Vijayadevu, the president of the Bengaluru Central Cooperative Bank (BDCC), till late at night at both his Kanakapura home and the Teppalu resort in Maralebekuppe. According to reports, they had also searched the homes of Chikkondahalli Vishwanath, president of DKS Trust, and H P Rajkumar, president of Bengaluru Milk Union Limited (Bamul), seizing cash. They stated that they had carried out searches on the basis of intelligence that money had being hoarded for the elections.
