Mangaluru, Sep 29: U T Khader, minister for food and civil supplies, on Thursday dismissed as a blatant lie the allegation by a Bharatiya Janata Party leader that the former was part of a Rs 500 crore condom scam.
"It is a blatant and shameless lie," the Congress leader told reporters when his reaction was sought to BJP leader and former corporator NR Ramesh's fresh allegations.
Allegations by Ramesh
Mr Ramesh, who had earlier accused Mr Khader of involving in a Rs 14,000 core drug purchase scam, on Monday claimed that Karnataka health ministry had misused funds meant for condom distribution. According to him the scam took place when Mr Khader was the health and family welfare minister.
“The chief minister and the health minister are president and vice president of this society respectively. Most of the scam happened when Mr Khader was the health minister,” said Mr Ramesh.
He alleged that the Karnataka State Aids Prevention Society (KSAPS), which is under the state health ministry, had promoted condoms of a private company as a part of its Condom Social Marketing Programme. The society distributed these condoms from private company to women in flesh trade, he claimed.
Ready to face probe
Mr Khader said that neither he nor chief minister Siddaramaiah involved in any such scam. “This is not the first time Ramesh is making such baseless allegations against me. Even senior BJP leaders know the fact that he is a liar,” he said.
The minister said that it was the responsibility of the union government to purchase condoms through National Aids Control Organisation (NACO). Hence, one needs not to fear about misuse of funds by the State government.
Mr Khader also said he was ready for any kind of probe. “We never shy away from any enquiry. Let the probe happen. I say this confidently because I never indulge in such activities,” he said.
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
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BJP is filled with thugs of RSS and Bajrangdal. Lies are birth right of these people. They want to accuse with fabricated stories, then keep chanting until it looks like a truth who believe blindly.
God bless UTK!
shame!!!!
Mr utk where s your bike ambulance nowhere to see, spent crores of rupees on it. forget about the condoms..
actually this must be biggest scam: UTK launches bike ambulances for Mangaluru, Ullal
Read in CD: www.coastaldigest.com/index.php/news/75203-utk-launches-bike-ambulances…
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