MUDA site scam ignites banter between Siddaramaiah and Somanna
Bengaluru: Union Minister V. Somanna told Chief Minister Siddaramaiah that he had committed a mistake in the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) sites scam by not going by his suggestion to return the sites earlier.
At an award distribution programme in Bengaluru yesterday, Siddaramaiah and Somanna unexpectedly came face-to-face. During this encounter, they discussed the ongoing MUDA site controversy.
Somanna remarked to Siddaramaiah, “If you had returned that site back then, none of this would have happened.” He argued that the controversy could have been avoided if Siddaramaiah’s wife, Parvathi, had surrendered the 14 sites allotted to her much earlier.
Somanna continued, saying, “I speak directly to Siddaramaiah, no matter what. I’m not someone who schemes behind people’s backs like others. If you had listened to me, this wouldn’t have happened.”
Continuing, Somanna added, “It’s a small issue. If it had been resolved back then, things would have been fine. Had it been sorted earlier, it would have been much more high-class now. Why did you make statements in the Assembly saying this many crores or that many crores? Did we ask you to say that? Was I even in the Assembly for this? Instead of surrendering, you spoke about the value of the sites in terms of crores of rupees.”
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