{"id":4926,"date":"2019-03-22T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T10:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=4926"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:12:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:42:36","slug":"congress-demands-probe-into-allegations-that-bs-yeddyurappa-paid-rs-1800-crore-to-top-bjp-leaders-and-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/congress-demands-probe-into-allegations-that-bs-yeddyurappa-paid-rs-1800-crore-to-top-bjp-leaders-and-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress demands probe into allegations that BS Yeddyurappa paid Rs 1,800 crore to top BJP leaders and party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Friday sought an inquiry by the Lokpal into a <a href=\"https:\/\/caravanmagazine.in\/politics\/yeddyurappa-diaries-bjp-1800-crore-payouts-jaitley-rajnath-gadkari-advani-crores\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">news report published by\u00a0<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #008080;\">The Caravan<\/span> <\/em><\/a>that claimed former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa had allegedly made diary entries on paying Rs 1,800 crore to some of the topmost leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the documents \u2013 showing Yeddyurappa\u2019s handwriting in Kannada \u2013 have been with the income tax department since 2017. \u201cCopies of these entries have been with the income-tax department since 2017,\u201d The Caravan report states.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Yeddyurappa had paid Rs 1,000 crore to the party\u2019s central committee, Rs 150 crore each to ministers Arun Jaitley and Nitin Gadkari, Rs 100 crore to minister Rajnath Singh, Rs 50 crore each to party veterans LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi. The report also claims that the diary entry mentions Rs 10 crore paid for \u201cGadkari\u2019s son\u2019s marriage\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, there is mention of entries that Yeddyurappa paid Rs 250 crore to \u201cjudges\u201d and Rs 50 crore to \u201cAdvocates (fee paid for cases), though no names are mentioned. The purported entries in the diary show that 26 people paid Yeddyurappa Rs 2,690 crore.<\/p>\n<p>Yeddyurappa was the chief minister of Karnataka from May 2008 to July 2011, and the entries were made in a 2009 diary. The report mentions that the copy of the diary pages bears his signature.<\/p>\n<p>Following the publication of the report, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said at a press conference, \u201cWhy isn\u2019t Narendra Modi ready for an investigation? Now, there is even a Lokpal appointed. Why can\u2019t the first independent investigation be on this issue?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news report also carries diary entries of amounts allegedly paid to eight Karnataka lawmakers, some of whom helped Yeddyurappa get support to form the government in 2008 and also became ministers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Caravan magazine&#8217;s findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":4927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4926"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=4926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}