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Donโ€™t need Gujarat model in Karnataka, says KPCC chief DK Shivakumar on Shahโ€™s statement on Amul-Nandini

DK Shivakumar

Bengaluru: Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar on Tuesday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party should not shield its MLA Aravind Limbavali in the alleged suicide case of a Bengaluru businessman.
On Sunday, a 47-year-old Bengaluru businessman allegedly shot himself in the head inside his car here, said the police. The deceased has been identified as Pradeep S. He left behind an eight-page suicide note in English holding six people, including BJP MLA Aravind Limbavali, responsible for him taking the extreme step. Pradeep ended his life in the car near Kaggalipura.
While talking about Union Home Minister Amit Shahโ€™s recent statement on two milk cooperatives in Mandya, Shivakumar said, โ€œI condemn Amit Shahโ€™s statement, he has once again proved that BJP has no leader in Karnataka, Amit Shah and Modi come to Karnataka again and again, BJP has no leader in Karnataka.โ€
โ€œRecently, when Amit Shah came to Karnataka, he talked about Amul and Nandini, we donโ€™t need Amul technology, our brand Nandini is the best, itโ€™s better to make Karnataka than Gujarat model, we donโ€™t need Gujarat model in Karnataka,โ€ he added.

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On Friday, Shah in Bengaluru suggested that Amul and Nandini, two successful milk unions, could work towards the welfare of the countryโ€™s milk producers, initiating a โ€œwhite revolutionโ€.
However, on Sunday, Cooperation Minister S.T. Somashekar clarified that the statement did not mean a merger of the two milk cooperatives โ€” Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) and Gujarat-based Anand Milk Union Ltd (AMUL).
On Sunday, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai defended Shah and said that Nandini Dairy will always maintain its separate identity in the coming years.
Bommai told reporters here that the merger of Nandini into AMUL is a wrong imagination.

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Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 Case: ED Records Statement Of Manish Sisodiaโ€™s PA, Raids Five Places

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CBI denies manish sisodia claim

Sisodia said that the ED registered a โ€œfalseโ€ case against him after which it raided his PAโ€™s house and โ€œarrestedโ€ him

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday questioned Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodiaโ€™s personal assistant following raids conducted at five places in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) in connection with Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 money laundering case, sources said.

The agency is also learnt to have picked a few suspects, including Devendra Sharma, a close aide and personal assistant of Sisodia, from their houses in Delhi and NCR. All the suspects, who were picked from their houses during EDโ€™s search operation, are being questioned at EDโ€™s headquarters here under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) provisions.

In a tweet, Sisodia said that the ED registered a โ€œfalseโ€ case against him after which it raided his PAโ€™s house and โ€œarrestedโ€ him.

โ€œAfter lodging false FIR, they raided my house, searched bank lockers, and checked in my village but found nothing against me. Today, ED conducted a raid at my PAโ€™s house. When ED did not find anything there either, they arrested him and took him away. BJP people! So much fear of losing the election..,โ€ Sisodia tweeted in Hindi.

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In October, the ED had also raided nearly three dozen locations in Delhi and Punjab following the arrest of Sameer Mahendru, Managing Director of Delhiโ€™s Jor Bagh-based liquor distributor Indospirit Group, in the case.

Among the accused in the case is Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, the then Excise Commissioner Arva Gopi Krishna, Deputy Commissioner Anand Tiwari and Assistant Commissioner Pankaj Bhatnagar.

Other accused are Manoj Rai, a former employee of Pernod Ricard; Amandeep Dhal, director of Brindco Sales; director of Buddy Retail Amit Arora, and Dinesh Arora; authorised signatories of Mahadev Liquors Sunny Marwah, Arun Ramchandra Pillai and Arjun Pandey.

The ED and the CBI had alleged that irregularities were committed while modifying the Excise Policy, undue favours were extended to licence holders, the licence fee was waived or reduced and the L-1 licence was extended without the competent authorityโ€™s approval. The beneficiaries diverted โ€œillegalโ€ gains to the accused officials and made false entries in their books of account to evade detection.

An alleged, the Excise Department had decided to refund the Earnest Money Deposit of about Rs 30 crore to a successful tenderer against the set rules. Even though there was no enabling provision, a waiver on tendered licence fees was allowed from December 28, 2021, to January 27, 2022, due to COVID-19.

This allegedly caused a loss of Rs 144.36 crore to the exchequer, said the FIR, which has been instituted on a reference from the Union Home Ministry following a recommendation from Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena.

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