Raids On Karnataka Minister Managing Gujarat Lawmakers, eleven crore confiscated

Karnataka minister DK Shivakumar was raided by taxmen nowadays and picked up for questioning from a luxury resort in Bengaluru wherever he was staying with forty three lawmakers flown in from Gujarat by the Congress to ascertain a rash of defections.

The minister was at the Eagleton Golf Resort since last night and was caught tearing up documents, aforesaid taxation officers, revealing that Rs. eleven large integer in money was condemned in raids at around sixty places in Mysore and Old Delhi. Wads of money were counted mistreatment note-counting machines.

Mr Shivakumar, the Energy Minister in Karnataka's Congress government, is being investigated for evasion. it's suspected that he's "DKS" in an exceedingly diary associated with kickbacks, condemned from a Congress leader earlier this year.

A raid team went with Central Reserve police (CRPF) personnel to the resort for the minister, WHO is suspect of channeling his wealth when ending into realty and jewelry. He searches extended to unlikely places sort of a faculty teacher's locker, that was within the name of mister Shivakumar's relative.

Mr Shivakumar is chief trouble-shooter for the Congress in Mysore and was selected handler for the Gujarat lawmakers WHO were rush to Bengaluru late on Friday night when six of their colleagues quit the party, causative a crisis within the state prior to the Rajya Sabha election next week - during which lawmakers area unit to vote - and polls later this year. 

Rs. eleven large integer was recovered throughout IT raids at Mysore Minister DK Shivakumar's Old Delhi home.
"The BJP is on Associate in Nursing new molestation simply to win one Rajya Sabha seat," tweeted Congress leader Ahmed Patel, WHO is facing a contest for re-election to the higher house from one in all 3 seats in Gujarat.

"After mistreatment the state machinery and each different agency, these I-T raids show their utter desperation and frustration," aforesaid mister Patel, WHO is Congress president Sonia Gandhi's political authority.

Responding to the Congress's allegation, government minister Arun Jaitley aforesaid in parliament: "Don't link the I-T raids to Rajya Sabha polls in Gujarat."

The Congress alleges that its lawmakers area unit being intimidated by the ruling BJP in Gujarat and additionally being offered Rs. fifteen large integer for his or her support within the Rajya Sabha polls on Tuesday.