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Yeddyurappa paid Rs 1,800 cr to BJP leaders: Report
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SME Times News Bureau | 22 Mar, 2019
Former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa made payouts of Rs
1,800 crore to senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party, judges and
lawyers, reported The Caravan on Friday.
The report said news
magazine The Caravan accessed copies of diary entries in the handwriting
of Yeddyurappa that note payoffs amounting to over Rs 1,800 crore to
the BJP leaders such Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Home Minister
Rajnath Singh, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, the BJP stalwart L.K.
Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi among others.
"The copies of
the diary pages note that Yeddyurappa paid the BJP Central Committee Rs
1,000 crore; that he paid the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and the
Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari Rs 150 crore each; that he gave the
Home Minister Rajnath Singh Rs 100 crore; and that he paid the BJP
stalwart LK Advani and the senior party leader Murli Manohar Joshi Rs 50
crore each," reads the report.
"Besides this, the entry notes,
Yeddyurappa paid Rs 10 crore for "Gadkari's son's marriage." The diary
entries also state that Yeddyurappa paid Rs 250 crore to "judges" and Rs
50 crore to "advocates (fee paid for cases)," but does not mention any
names."
The alleged payouts were recorded by Yeddyurappa in a
Karnataka state assembly legislator's 2009 diary, in Kannada, in his own
hand, the report said.
Copies of these entries have been with the income-tax department since 2017. The
entries regarding payments to the BJP leaders, judges and advocates
were written against rows dated January 17, 2009, while the entry
regarding the BJP central committee was written against rows dated
January 18, 2009, said the report, adding it was unclear whether the
entries were made on these dates or written in the diary on a later
date.
Yeddyurappa served as the chief minister in Karnataka from May 2008 to July 2011.
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