Bengaluru: Keeping up the heat on Chief Minister Siddaramaiah over his alleged links with a company running a Ponzi scheme, BJP on Sunday sought to know his connection with its head Vijay Eswaran, who was under serious scrutiny of the UPA government.
Union Minister for communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad sought to know why Siddaramaiah feted a person who, despite being investigated by the UPA government, came to Karnataka and initiated ponzi schemes.
He sought to know from the chief minister who Vijay Eswaran was and how he had feted him in China.
"...a person against whom the Serious Fraud Investigation office had investigatedunder Manmohan Singh, not only feted by you in China, but atyour instance comes to Karnataka to invest and initiates ponzischemes," he said.
Raising the issue yesterday, BJP had accused Siddaramaiah of 'aiding, abetting, protecting and promoting' the cheating of private investors in the alleged Ponzi scheme.
The BJP had also sought to know whether Siddaramaiah received the costly Hublot watch for 'facilitating' the company, QI Group of Companies, headed by Vijay Eswaran, to operate in the state.
Embroiled in a controversy over the diamond-studded Hublot watch in March 2016, Siddaramaiah had handed it over to the Assembly speaker, asking him to make it a state asset. Training his guns on Congress president RahulGandhi, Prasad sought to know his party's stand on tripletalaq.
He said Gandhi has been asking many questions andraising issues like women's empowerment. Hence, he said he wantsCongress' stand on triple talaq.
"What is your party's stand on triple talaq?This question is important because the bill has been passed in theLok Sabha and is now in Rajya Sabha, where the Congress is ensuring that the law is not passed or debate doesn'tstart," said Prasad.