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Karnataka Minister Joins BJP, Soon After Resigning From Congress

Bengaluru: Former Karnataka Minister Pramod Madhwaraj joined the BJP on Saturday in the presence of Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, just hours after quitting from the Congress.

Mr Madhwaraj, a former MLA and state minister, had resigned from the Congress partyโ€™s primary membership earlier in the day.

Mr Madhwaraj addressed his resignation letter to KPCC president DK Shivakumar stating, โ€œI have decided not to accept the post of vice-presidentship of KPCC and also to tender my resignation from the primary membership of the Congress party.โ€

The former Minster mentioned in the letter โ€œfor the last three years the situation in the Udupi district Congress party has been a bad experience for me thus leading to political suffocation and the facts of which have been brought to your kind notice and informed to other party leaders by me.โ€

โ€œI have observed that no worthwhile steps have been taken by the party to redress my grievances regarding the prevailing situation in the Udupi district Congress party,โ€ Mr Madhwaraj wrote.

Mr Madhwaraj had stated that the โ€˜patternโ€™ in determining Padma awards had altered after the BJP administration took control at the Centre.

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โ€œThese days a video is going viral on the internet. Some officers of the ED are sitting in a room full of cash and counting it. There is a pile of cash lying around. This video is from the residence of a person who is a Chartered accountant to IAS officer Pooja Singhal. ED had later also released a picture of the cash recovered with notes on the top arranged in a shape to denote the shortform of agency name.

Recently, The ED have conducted raids at multiple premises, including that of Jharkhand mining secretary Pooja Singhal and her family, in connection with a money laundering probe linked to alleged embezzlement of over Rs 18 crore MGNREGA funds in Khunti district of the state during 2008-11. At least about Rs 17 crore cash has been recovered from the premises of a Ranchi-based Chartered Accountant. The banknote counters have been brought in by the agency to count the exact amount.

Till now, ED confirmed that Rs 19.31 crore cash was recovered from two premises, including the from the house of the chartered accountant, that were searched in state capital Ranchi. Another Rs 1.8 crore cash was recovered from another location in the city.

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