Twist to Rs. 150 crore allegation against B.Y. Vijayendra: Siddaramaiah’s statement is false, says Anwar Manippady
‘Not BJP but Congress leaders offered money to stay silent on Waqf Board land encroachments’
Mangaluru: A day after Chief Minister Siddaramaiah alleged that State BJP President B.Y. Vijayendra offered Rs. 150 crore to Anwar Manippady, the then Chairman of the Karnataka State Minorities Commission, to remain silent on the encroachment of Waqf Board properties, the controversy has taken a new twist with Manippady dismissing the CM’s claims as completely baseless.
Speaking to reporters at Mangaluru yesterday, Manippady dismissed Siddaramaiah’s allegations that he (Manippady) was offered Rs.150 crore by Vijayendra for maintaining silence on Waqf Board property encroachments.
Maintaining that he did not know who Vijayendra was in 2012-13, but had only heard his name, Manippady said that it was Congress leaders who had offered him money then.
Asserting that he had vented his anger at his own party, the BJP, for failing to implement the recommendations made in his report on Waqf Board properties, he said he was also angered by the actions of his own partymen who had stalled the implementation of the recommendations.
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