Bangalore, September 20: JDS today asked Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa either to strip Health Minister B Sreeramulu of his portfolio or seek his resignation holding him responsible for three deaths following administering of ”spurious” drugs to patients in Madikeri district. “Since the Chief Minister shifted D Sudhakara from Social Welfare Department to Muzrai after a spate of death of beggars in the city relief centre, the same yard stick should apply to Sreeramulu.
Let Yeddyurappa divest Sreeramulu of health department and get his resignation,” State unit JDS President H D Kumaraswamy demanded at a press conference here. “Health Minister says officials of his department refuse to cooperate with him.
Can we call this a government?” the former Chief Minister who had earlier led the JDS-BJP coalition government asked. He hit out at the “drama being enacted” by BJP leaders over ministry restructuring ignoring the plight of people.
On the bypoll results in which JDS won the Gulbarga Dakshina seat pushing the Congress to third place, he alleged that BJP and Congress had entered into a “tacit” understanding to defeat his party, but the electorate blessed it. “BJP and Congress say JDS won because of the sympathy factor in Gulbarga.
The sympathy wave in favour of our party is already blowing across north Karnataka. In the next electi
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