Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday appeared before the Lokayukta police as he was summoned for questioning in the MUDA site allotment case.
As the CM appeared before the police, the opposition BJP in the state staged a protest demanding his resignation. Protesters led by BJP MLA T S Srivatsa slammed Siddaramaiah and asked him to step down from the CM post and face the probe, PTI reported.
Expressing doubts over the manner in which the Lokayukta probe is being conducted, Srivatsa demanded that the case be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
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The protesters, who were holding placards and shouting slogans against CM Siddaramaiah and the Congress government, even alleged that the police were not letting them stage a protest. Later, the agitators were whisked away by the police in vehicles.
The CM, who has been named as accused number 1 in the FIR lodged by the Lokayukta police, is facing allegations of illegalities in the allotment of 14 sites to his wife Parvathi B M by the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA).
They had on October 25 questioned his wife, who has been named as accused number 2.
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Siddaramaiah, his wife, brother-in-law Mallikarjuna Swamy and Devaraju — from whom Swamy had purchased land and gifted it to Parvathi — and others have been named in the FIR registered by the Mysuru-located Lokayukta police establishment on September 27.
Swamy and Devaraju have already deposed before the Lokayukta police.
(With inputs from PTI)