Congress leaders and party workers across the state are protesting the CBI raid on DK Shivakumar’s residences. Meanwhile, BJP has called the protests ridiculous and meaningless.
Bengaluru: Congress leaders and party workers across the state are protesting the CBI raid on DK Shivakumar’s properties.
Congress leaders and party workers claim that the raids on DK Shivakumar’s houses are purely political and are being done whenever there is an election involving the party and the KPCC president.
The BJP has stated that the protests by the Congress over CBI conducting searches at multiple premises on Monday in a corruption case related to party leader DK Shivakumar is ridiculous and meaningless.
Karnataka BJP spokesperson, Captain Ganesh Karnik said CBI, ED & IT are institutions with functional autonomy to investigate and bring to justice financial & criminal fraudsters.
“They are always on their job. The present raid is in continuation of investigations started by ED in 2017,” Ganesh Karnik said.
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Stating that the BJP respects the functional autonomy granted to these institutions for probity, Captain Karnik said “the politically motivated protests by Congress are ridiculous & meaningless”.
Ganesh Karnik added that “The party which was in power for such a long time both at centre and state should know the functioning of these institutions better.”
The CBI is carrying out searches at 14 locations in Karnataka, Delhi and Maharashtra in the case that pertains to amassing disproportionate assets.
The CBI said it has registered a case against the president of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee and others on the allegations of disproportionate assets.