<p>The State BJP will continue with its dharna in the well of the Legislative Assembly as the House resumes on Monday demanding a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in denotification of 541 acres in Arkavathy Layout of the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA).<br /><br /></p>.<p>The BJP had crippled the entire day’s business on Saturday alleging that ruling Congress was a direct beneficiary of the alleged illegal denotifications and the funds had been utilised during the recent polls to the Lok Sabha.<br /><br />“We will not budge. We will not accept anything but a CBI probe,” Leader of the Opposition Jagadish Shettar told Deccan Herald on Sunday. <br /><br />The day’s agenda has listed discussion on demand for budgetary grants for 18 departments and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s reply. The budget proposals for 2014-15 have to be passed by July 31. Only a vote-on-account for four months was taken in March this year, when the budget proposals were tabled in the legislature.<br /><br />Shettar said it was for the ruling party to decide on how it gets the budget passed but the BJP members would continue with their dharna.<br /><br />A strategy meeting has been convened by the BJP at its legislature party office in Vidhana Soudha on Monday morning, Opposition Chief Whip Sunil Kumar said.<br /><br />Taking a different stand<br /><br />Interestingly, former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa has not toed the party line on the denotification controversy. In a statement in Tumkur, Yeddyurappa said that denotification of land was left to the chief minister’s discretion.<br /><br />Some BJP leaders feel that a CBI inquiry into denotification of land in Arkavathy Layout could also put Yeddyurappa in the dock.<br /></p>
<p>The State BJP will continue with its dharna in the well of the Legislative Assembly as the House resumes on Monday demanding a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in denotification of 541 acres in Arkavathy Layout of the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA).<br /><br /></p>.<p>The BJP had crippled the entire day’s business on Saturday alleging that ruling Congress was a direct beneficiary of the alleged illegal denotifications and the funds had been utilised during the recent polls to the Lok Sabha.<br /><br />“We will not budge. We will not accept anything but a CBI probe,” Leader of the Opposition Jagadish Shettar told Deccan Herald on Sunday. <br /><br />The day’s agenda has listed discussion on demand for budgetary grants for 18 departments and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s reply. The budget proposals for 2014-15 have to be passed by July 31. Only a vote-on-account for four months was taken in March this year, when the budget proposals were tabled in the legislature.<br /><br />Shettar said it was for the ruling party to decide on how it gets the budget passed but the BJP members would continue with their dharna.<br /><br />A strategy meeting has been convened by the BJP at its legislature party office in Vidhana Soudha on Monday morning, Opposition Chief Whip Sunil Kumar said.<br /><br />Taking a different stand<br /><br />Interestingly, former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa has not toed the party line on the denotification controversy. In a statement in Tumkur, Yeddyurappa said that denotification of land was left to the chief minister’s discretion.<br /><br />Some BJP leaders feel that a CBI inquiry into denotification of land in Arkavathy Layout could also put Yeddyurappa in the dock.<br /></p>
