Karnataka CM Shivakumar
The BJP-JD(S) has announced a march from Raichur to Ballari from September 1 to 10 over the alleged irregularities in the Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.
Nagendra, who was reinducted into the Cabinet on August 3 with the Planning and Statistics portfolio, resigned on Friday amid renewed pressure over the alleged Valmiki Corporation fund irregularities. He had earlier resigned as minister in June 2024 after the allegations emerged.
Defending Nagendra’s resignation, Shivakumar said the Congress leader had stepped down voluntarily to prevent embarrassment for the party. “He came voluntarily and said, ‘I will sacrifice myself for the party,’ and resigned. Let them do well,” he said.
“They are unable to digest my becoming chief minister. None of them is able to digest it. The NDA is unable to digest it. Poor fellows, they are doing what they are doing.
I am sending it to the Governor today,” he said.
The welfare of the state is not important to them,” Shivakumar said. “What BJP is doing is politics. For them, politics is more important and not the people’s lives.
MYSURU: Karnataka chief minister D K Shivakumar on Saturday accused the BJP of turning B Nagendra’s resignation into a political issue, saying the Opposition was more focused on its planned padayatra than on problems faced by farmers and people in the state, according to news agency PTI reported. Shivakumar was responding to the BJP’s decision to continue with the padayatra despite Nagendra resigning as minister on Friday.