'Mocking the very fight': BJP MLAs oppose BSY govt's plan to sell Bellary land to JSW Steel

The MLAs said it was the same issue that the BJP and CM Yediyurappa had vehemently opposed when the Congress-JDS coalition wanted to carry out the land deal.

Four BJP MLAs have written to Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa urging him not to go ahead with the decision to sell 3,667 acres of land to JSW Steel in Bellary district. The MLAs said it was the same issue that the BJP and CM Yediyurappa had vehemently opposed when the Congress-JDS coalition wanted to carry out the land deal. The Karnataka cabinet had in April approved the execution of the lease-cum-sale agreement in favour of the JSW Group. The letter, signed by Basangouda Yatnal, Arvind Bellad, K Poornima, Uday Garudachar, read, "The decision to execute the absolute sale deed in the cabinet meeting held on Date:26/04/2021 has come as a shock to all the legislators. The decision of the state cabinet, in fact, humiliates the protest taken up by all the BJP karyakartas and legislators. Many of the ministers and legislators are not in approval of the said decision of the state government.....The very issue of corruption, for which the entire BJP state unit had fought under your leadership is being approved by you as chief minister is mocking the very fight."