FIR against Karnataka deputy CM DK Shivakumar for promising Cauvery water in exchange for votes
The state’s chief electoral officer said that a case of “bribery and undue influence at elections” had been filed against the Congress leader.
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The chief electoral officer of Karnataka announced on Saturday that a first information report has been filed against DK Shivakumar, Congress leader and Karnataka’s deputy chief minister, for violating the Mode Code of Conduct while campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections.
The Model Code of Conduct is a set of rules issued by the poll body that all political parties, candidates and the government are mandated to follow in the run-up to an election.
The Karnataka unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party had written to the Election Commission objecting to a video of Shivakumar in which he purportedly promised the residents of Bengaluru’s RR Nagar a supply of water from the Cauvery river if they voted for his brother DK Suresh, who is contesting the Lok Sabha polls from the Bangalore Rural seat. He made the comments on April 7, according to The News Minute.
Bengaluru has been in the midst of a severe water crisis for the past two months.
“I have come for a business deal,” Shivakumar is heard saying in the video. “You have 2,510 houses, 6,424 votes in this premises. Your major problem is that you want a CA [civic amenities] site, which is a part of this apartment, to be handed over to you…Number two is Cauvery water...all other...
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