Krishna’s continued association with Cong led to I-T raids on Siddhartha’s firm?

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September 21, 2017

Bengaluru: Less than two months after the Income Tax department’s marathon raids on the premises of Congress leader D K Shivakumar, another tycoon from Karnataka has fallen prey to the central government’s powerful agency.

Non-NDA political parties often accuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government of using I-T department and Central Bureau of Investigation for political vendetta. Interestingly, this time the “victim” of I-T raid is the son-in-law of an 85-year-old BJP leader who had recently quit Congress and openly praised Modi and his policies.

Rumours were rife that S M Krshina had to jump the ship and join BJP earlier this year just to save his tycoon son-in-law V G Siddhartha from a positional I-T raid.

However, BJP supremo was not happy with Krishna’s continued association with the Congress leaders even after formally joining the saffron party. Besides, recent bypolls in Karnataka had drastically lowered the BJP’s exceptions on this Vokkaliga stalwart.

If sources are to be believed, Krishna’s lack of enthusiasm in strengthening the BJP in Karnataka ahead of next assembly polls and star-turned-Congress leader Ramya’s penchant for criticizing Modi government’s policies also had irked Amit Shah. On the other hand, Siddhartha had continued to maintain his apolitical image.

Who is Siddhartha?

57-year-old Siddhartha, who hails from Chikkamagaluru, founded the Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company in 1993, which was later renamed Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd. The chain, which operates over 1600 cafes was first started in 1996 with single outlet in Bengaluru.

Siddhartha comes from a coffee plantation owning family, and has multiple business interests in industries such as furniture, real estate, investment consulting, agri exports and logistics. He is known to be a serial investor, and has diversified Coffee Day Enterprises portfolio through holdings in Mindtree Consulting and many other companies. Krishna had reportedly played a key role in Siddhartha’s sudden growth.

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Bengaluru, Jul 2: Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu on Thursday launched the ICU Telecard, developed by CISCO to address the concerns of doctors treating coronavirus patients.

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The ICU Telecard has been installed at Victoria and KC General hospital.

"This technology is a necessity to safeguard health of our doctors and it should be implemented in all hospitals. We will discuss about this in the task force meeting and decide regarding the use of this technology in all COVID hospitals in the state. For now, we have installed one at Victoria and KC General hospital" said the minister.

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