KS Eshwarappa to resign tomorrow amid row over contractor\u2019s suicide
\nThe minister\u2019s statements come two days after Santosh Patil, a right-wing leader and a contractor was found dead in an Udupi hotel, blaming the minister for his decision to take his own life.
\nKarnataka\u2019s minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) KS Eshwarappa on Thursday said that he will step down from the cabinet on Friday after a contractor blamed him for his death before taking his own life. (HT PHOTO.)
\nKarnataka\u2019s minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) KS Eshwarappa on Thursday said that he will step down from the cabinet on Friday after a contractor blamed him for his death before taking his own life. (HT PHOTO.)
\nPublished on Apr 14, 2022 07:44 PM IST
\nBySharan Poovanna
\nKarnataka\u2019s minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) KS Eshwarappa, on Thursday said that he will step down from the cabinet on Friday, claiming he does not want to \u201cembarrass\u201d the party and its leaders.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder the government led by Basavaraj Bommai, I have worked as RDPR minister till today. Today, I have made a decision that I will resign from the post of minister tomorrow (Friday),\u201d Eshwarappa said on Thursday evening in Shivamogga, about 350 km from Bengaluru.<\/p>\n
The minister\u2019s statements come two days after Santosh Patil, a right-wing leader and a contractor was found dead in an Udupi hotel, blaming the minister for his decision to take his own life.<\/p>\n
Santosh K Patil\u2019s body was found on Tuesday morning. In a Whatsapp message on Monday night, which he shared with associates and some sections of the media, Patil had alleged that Eshwarappa is directly responsible for his death.<\/p>\n
Patil had earlier also said that the minister was seeking 40% commission to make payments for a job undertaken by the former in February last year, adding to the piling corruption charges against the Bommai-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Karnataka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KS Eshwarappa to resign tomorrow amid row over contractor\u2019s suicide The minister\u2019s statements come two days after Santosh Patil, a right-wing leader and a contractor was found dead in an Udupi hotel, blaming the minister for his decision to take his own life. Karnataka\u2019s minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) KS Eshwarappa on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidepostdev.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidepostdev.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidepostdev.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidepostdev.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidepostdev.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guidepostdev.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/guidepostdev.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidepostdev.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidepostdev.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidepostdev.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}