<p>Members of Samata Sainika Dal and D Devaraj Urs Smaraka Nirmana Horata Samithi have urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to take over the property where former chief minister late D Devaraj Urs lived at Sadashivanagar in Bangalore and construct a memorial in his name.<br /><br /></p>.<p>In a memorandum submitted to the government recently, the two organisations have criticised the chief minister for stating that it was a private property and demanded an apology from him. <br /><br />Besides a memorial, a training centre for girl students belonging to the backward classes should be built on the plot.<br /><br />Land was with BDA<br /><br />The property was in the Bangalore Development Authority's (BDA) ownership till 2012. It is a mystery as to how S Mallikarjun, son of Horticulture Minister Shamanur Shivashankarappa, bought it. <br /><br />Though the Urban Development Department has recommended that a Lokayukra probe should be ordered into it, nothing has been done, the members, including freedom fighter H S Doreswamy, Kannada writer Chandrashekara Patil and former minister B T Lalitha Nayak, stated.<br /><br />Mallikarjun had recently taken up demolition of an old building on the plot, leading to controversy. <br /><br />The two organisations have warned that they will be forced to take up State-wide agitation if the chief minister failed to fulfil their demands.<br /></p>
<p>Members of Samata Sainika Dal and D Devaraj Urs Smaraka Nirmana Horata Samithi have urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to take over the property where former chief minister late D Devaraj Urs lived at Sadashivanagar in Bangalore and construct a memorial in his name.<br /><br /></p>.<p>In a memorandum submitted to the government recently, the two organisations have criticised the chief minister for stating that it was a private property and demanded an apology from him. <br /><br />Besides a memorial, a training centre for girl students belonging to the backward classes should be built on the plot.<br /><br />Land was with BDA<br /><br />The property was in the Bangalore Development Authority's (BDA) ownership till 2012. It is a mystery as to how S Mallikarjun, son of Horticulture Minister Shamanur Shivashankarappa, bought it. <br /><br />Though the Urban Development Department has recommended that a Lokayukra probe should be ordered into it, nothing has been done, the members, including freedom fighter H S Doreswamy, Kannada writer Chandrashekara Patil and former minister B T Lalitha Nayak, stated.<br /><br />Mallikarjun had recently taken up demolition of an old building on the plot, leading to controversy. <br /><br />The two organisations have warned that they will be forced to take up State-wide agitation if the chief minister failed to fulfil their demands.<br /></p>
