Video clip of K'taka CM’s son’s conversation: Kumaraswamy raises more questions, CM offers to retire from politics if charges proved
Siddaramaiah and JDS state president HD Kumaraswamy lashed out at each other on Sunday as the latter stuck to his allegation that the CM and his son Dr Yathindra indulged in corruption in the transfer of officials.
The JDS leader in a series of posts on social media platform X as well as in a press statement threw some more questions at the CM, not satisfied by the explanation he had offered about the mobile conversation his son had with one of his officials.
The CM, in a chat with the media, offered to retire from politics if Kumaraswamy established he made money in official transfers.
Kumaraswamy was now talking about the “money transactions in transfers’ during his own tenue as chief minister, Siddaramaiah said, seeking to turn the tables on his bitter rival. The two leaders were once part of the JDS, and Siddaramaiah switched to the Congress in 2005 after his expulsion from the party over differences with HD Deve Gowda.
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- Trouble began for the ruling Congress and the CM after a video clip emerged two days ago showing his son talking to an official in CM’s office and asking him to stick to only the ‘4-5’ names he had recommended and not consider names suggested by others. The conversation occurred in the CM's presence.
Kumaraswamy quickly pounced on the CM alleging that the
