KIADB plot allotted to Kharge trust legally, says Congress leader
New Indian ExpressBENGALURU: Hitting back at BJP Rajya Sabha member Lehar Singh Siroya, KPCC media and communication chairperson Ramesh Babu on Monday said the trust run by the family of AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge was allotted a civic amenities site by the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board as per rules and regulations. The former MLC’s response came after Lehar Singh, citing a report, questioned the allotment of five acres of land at an aerospace park near Bengaluru to the Kharge family’s Siddhartha Vihara Education Trust. The CA site has been allotted to Siddhartha Vihara Education Trust as per rules,” he said. “Let Lehar Singh publicly disclose how much property he mentioned in the election affidavit when he was an MLC in 2010 and 2016, and in the affidavit when he was elected a Rajya Sabha member.