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Ambitious sons led to BSYs downfall

BANGALORE: Ambitious sons brought B S Yeddyurappa to grief, his 38-month tenure ending on Sunday in ignominy, after their dubious land deals were exposed by Lokayukta Justice Santosh N Hegde. It all started in September 2008, barely five months after Yeddyurappa became the first BJP chief minister in South India. His sons B Y Raghavendra and B Y Vijayendra, who were till then unheard of in BSYs 40-year-long political career, struck a land deal. According to the Lokayukta report, the brothers got BSY to denotify 1.20 acres of prime land in Bangalore, acquired by the government for Rs 17 lakh in 2004, back to its original owners. Later, they bought the same land for only Rs 20 lakh, though its market rate at that point of time stood at Rs 1.34 crore. It is this land deal that ultimately played a crucial role in bringing to an end BSYs three-year tenure as CM, following probes by the Lokayukta. The brothers were also named in other denotification deals and these cases are pending before anti-corruption courts in the state. In another case reported in the Lokayukta report, a total of Rs 20 crore was received by Prerana Education Trust run in BSYs home town of Shimoga in March 2010 by South West Mining Company, ostensibly as a donation. On verification, we found that this is genuinely not a case of donation payment, Justice Hegde said in his report.

                                                                                                               
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