BJP, JD(S) train guns on CM
DH News Service, Bengaluru, Jul 12 2017, 0:15 IST
The Opposition parties, the BJP and the JD(S), on Tuesday criticised Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for having retired IPS officer Kempaiah as the adviser to the Home department and said that the law and order situation has deteriorated in the state because of the adviser.
The chief minister has given control of the Home department to the person who had taken voluntary retirement. Senior police officers are forced to listen to him. “It is unbecoming of a chief minister to make the adviser sit next to him in the review meeting on Monday...If he (Siddaramaiah) really wants his (Kempaiah’s) advice, he should take it at his residence,” JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy told reporters here.
BJP state general secretary Shobha Karandlaje accused Kempaiah of interfering with the day-to-day administration of the police department. “There cannot be peace and harmony in the state as long as Kempaiah continues in the Home department,” she added.
The chief minister has given control of the Home department to the person who had taken voluntary retirement. Senior police officers are forced to listen to him. “It is unbecoming of a chief minister to make the adviser sit next to him in the review meeting on Monday...If he (Siddaramaiah) really wants his (Kempaiah’s) advice, he should take it at his residence,” JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy told reporters here.
BJP state general secretary Shobha Karandlaje accused Kempaiah of interfering with the day-to-day administration of the police department. “There cannot be peace and harmony in the state as long as Kempaiah continues in the Home department,” she added.
