Hypocrite, Crocodile tears and tax payer money..!
Karnataka CM Yeddyurappa spends Rs 1.7 cr to redo home
13 Nov 2009, 0213 hrs IST, Anil Kumar M, TNN BANGALORE:
Last week, in New Delhi, a weeping Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa lamented how his political rivals, the ‘‘Bellary Reddys’’, were preventing him from tending to hapless flood victims. But a new revelation shows that the chief minister’s priority is not just selfless service of his state.
An RTI reply has revealed that Yeddyurappa has been equally committed to improving his own living quarters. He spent a staggering Rs 1.7 crore of taxpayer money to renovate his official bungalow at Devaraj Urs Road (Race Course), about Rs 35 lakh of which went into redoing his bedroom. Going by current austerity norms for politicians, Yeddyurappa’s generous spend is unlikely to make him a role model.
Renovation and fittings of the master bedroom alone cost Rs 34.55 lakh. This includes toilet works and interiors at Rs 10 lakh, marble flooring at Rs 10 lakh, a false ceiling and wall designs at Rs 4.40 lakh and Rs 10.15 lakh for gypsum board and wall panelling.
In an earlier report, TOI had revealed that the Karnataka government had incurred expenses of nearly Rs 1 crore for holding a cabinet meeting in Gulbarga last year.
The RTI also revealed that another Rs 14.65 lakh was spent to improve “bedroom number 2” in the CM’s residence. Rs 10 lakh was spent on marble flooring and Rs 4.65 lakh on imported wallpaper. In all, Rs 1.69 crore was spent on renovation.
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