The Karnataka government will review land allotted by the previous Bharatiya Janata Party government to various organisations, including the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its affiliates, The Hindu reported.
State Health and Family Welfare Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao made the statement on Friday.
Earlier in the day, Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda said that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has told the revenue department to review land that was allotted in the last six months of the previous government led by BJP leader Basavaraj Bommai.
“Our intention is to ensure justice to all,” he said. “Land allotted during the last six months to organisations irrespective of caste and religion will be reviewed. We will not trouble the organisations that received land for the genuine purposes.”
The minister said that land sanctioned in the name of organisations and later grabbed by individuals would be taken back.
Rao claimed in a separate press conference that hundreds of acres of government land had been transferred in the name of the RSS and its affiliates during the BJP government’s term, PTI reported. He said that the purpose behind this was that the organisations should grow along with the ideologies that they espouse…
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