Bengaluru/Mysuru, Jan 24: JD(S)?supremo H?D?Deve Gowda on Friday said he would not approach the State government in the future seeking land for his party’s office as long as Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was at the helm.
Gowda said he had no personal attachment to the office and the party’s belongings had already been packed. “I saw this vacant land, may be disputed, and thought we could move our office stuff into a temporary shed on the land. We decided to do so after the Supreme Court ordered us to vacate the office. I?have seen the manner in which the government has been behaving towards us whenever we approached it for the BBMP or the BDA?land. I?shall not apply for any land henceforth till this chief minister is in power,” he said.
Gowda further said there were several honest party workers who would come forward to accommodate the JD(S)?office. “We will wait till February 3 when the appeal on the site allotted at Vyalikaval would be heard. If no decision comes by then, I?will operate out of a rented house, if need be,” he said. The JD(S) will conduct a membership drive and party workers’ meeting at the Palace Grounds here on Saturday.
Addressing a press conference in Mysuru, Revenue Minister V Sreenivas Prasad targeted Gowda over the controversy on the JD(S) office. He criticised the antics of building a shed on the land. “The JD(S) is not facing any economic constraints to build an office. Gowda, (H D) Kumaraswamy and (H?D) Revanna do not belong to a BPL family. But they are acting like they do,” he said. Building a shed on the land is just a drama, he said.
Meanwhile, Sri Ramalingeshwari Swamy said on Friday if Gowda asked for the vacant land on Race Course Road—which belongs to the mutt—he would give it.
“So far, nobody has contacted us. But if they do now, we would not mind giving it to the JD(S) to build its office temporarily. It’s inaccurate that Gowda has contacted the mutt. If he contacts me even now, I will immediately give the land on a temporary basis,” he told reporters.
The pontiff also clarified the mutt didn’t have any land in Shivamogga. The mutt is based in Haranahalli, Chennagiri taluk, Davangere. Some people are spreading these rumours to grab the land, he claimed.
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