Karnataka Chief Minister slams media

Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has slammed the media for linking his name to the disproportionate assets seized by Income Tax officials from the realtors in Bangalore on Tuesday.

A visibly upset Kumaraswamy expressed displeasure over media reports linking his name with G Manjunath from who house the IT sleuths reportedly recovered a large amount of cash and documents of immovable property.

“It is a fact that Manjunath was a JD (S) worker, but why has the media come to the conclusion that he is close to me?”, the Chief Minister wondered.

He referred to the raids carried out by IT officials on the residence of former Federal Miniter of Telecommunications Sukh Ram and sought to know why the assets seized during the exercise were not linked to either the Congress President or the then Prime Minister.

It may be mentioned here that the IT sleuths carried raids on the offices and residences of several realtors in Bangalore on Tuesday.