Lokayukta’s stinging indictment of Karnataka CM

Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Santosh N Hegde has reportedly said that he has given substantive and voluminous evidence against the Chief Minister and others in the illegal mining in the state. In the face of it, the main opposition party Bhartiya Janata Party must ask its Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yedurappa to resign immediately.The illegal mining has caused the loss of state exchequer to the tune of rupees 1800 crore. This paints the picture of our political class that in the matter of corruption all political parties except the Left are strikingly painted with the same tainted brush. This is the reason the governments act on corruption only under the pressure of apex court's invention. This shows the gloomy state of affairs. Lokyukta Subhash Hegde is reortedly submitting the report figuring the name of CM,four of his ministers, leader of JD(S) and a Congress MP in the illegal mining in Bellary in the state of Karnataka.Though the reoprt is yet to be made public, the Karnataka government and two of its Cabinet ministers - Bellary brothers- who are dealing in mining also with the overt and covert support of the Chief Minister Yeddy and some of the top leaders of BJP in Delhi, which is already in public domain.It shows clearly that the lust for power and money has gone so high among our political class that they have forgottent all moral values.The moral degeneration has set in political class and politicians across the party line have let themself down before the nation. As the country’s atmophere is surcharged with corruption of different nature in the UPA-II government, the alleged involvement of BJP’s CM in corruption has demorlised the party. It must ask Yeddy to resign to uphold moral political value. Otherwise, its attack on the government may backfire on itself. The Lokyukta report would make no impact on BJP. If the Supreme Court intervened,took the hard stance in the case and asked the BJP leadership to get its tainted Chief Minister resigned, only then it would wake up to act.BJP has to play very important role in the position of nation’s main opposition party. It has to act and hold the political and moral value high as the nation requires on it to act and set the example. Untill the BJP seeks resignation of CM Yeddy, it has no moral right to attack the coalition government at the Centre on the issue of corruption. Lokayukta is a constitutional body and its indictment must be taken seriously.