Based on a complaint by BT Ratnakar, general secretary of Samaj Parivartan Samithi, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) against Congress leader in the lok Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge for amassing wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income (DA), the Karnataka lokayukta police have started an investigation.
Ratnakar has alleged in his complaint to the lokayukta police that Kharge had amassed wealth misusing the office of Minister and MlA and had assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. According to sources in the lokayukta the Additional Director General of Police, Karnataka lokayukta, has forwarded the complaint to the lokayukta Superintendent of Police, Raichur division, to conduct an inquiry and submit a report.
However, the source claimed that it was a preliminary inquiry into the allegations and no complaint has been registered. “An FIR will be filed if prima facie it appears that the allegations are true,” he added. The complainant has said that the allegations refer to the period from 1980 (when Kharge was Revenue Minister) till 2008 Assembly elections. He states in his complaint that Kharge as “the richest Dalit leader in the country,” and allege that he owns properties worth Rs50,000 crore.
The 90-page complaint with as many as 40 allegations against Kharge accuses him of misusing official position as an MlA and Minister in making “illegal appointments to the posts of 1,427 (SC-backlog vacancies) assistant engineers and junior engineers.” It also states that Kharge got grants-in-aid to societies headed by him and filed false affidavits before returning officers for elections to Assembly and lok Sabha.
