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Karnataka governor claims he has 'list of corrupt'

Source: PTI
December 22, 2010 22:40 IST
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Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj on Wednesday said he has a list of corrupt people in the state and offered to furnish it to those interested.

"I have given the list to Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa also," Bhardwaj told reporters.

Bhardwaj's remarks came just a few days after he shot off two letters to Yeddyurappa seeking his response to land scam charges against him and on illegal mining allegedly involving three ministers -- G Janardhana Reddy, G Karunakara Reddy and B Sreeramulu.

He had expressed displeasure over Yeddyurappa's replies, in which he described the corruption charges against him as baseless, while the Bharatiya Janata Party government accused the governor of behaving like an opposition leader and a Congress agent.

Earlier, Bhardwaj lashed out at BJP leaders over reports that they planned to petition President Pratibha Patil seeking her intervention to remove him as governor for his repeated outbursts against the Yeddurappa government.

"I am not a child. I have been in Parliament for 30 years. Most of their (BJP) leaders have not even spent ten years," he retorted, apparently responding to BJP MP D B Chandregowda, who had warned that the saffron party will urge the President to recall him for not discharging his constitutional duties.

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