Affidavit Confirms Ownership Near NICE Township II

‘CM owns land next to BMIC’
Affidavit Confirms Ownership Near NICE Township II
The Times of India

Bangalore: Chief minister H D Kumaraswamy owns 24 acres at Kethiganahalli in Bidadi hobli, Ramanagaram taluk, in his own name, according to an affidavit.
This land is next to the second township in Ramanagaram of the controversial Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC). Documents available with The Times of India, including the affidavit filed by Kumaraswamy at the time of declaring assets before the election officer in 2004, confirm this fact.
Kumaraswamy, in his affidavit, furnished along with his nomination papers for Ramanagaram legislative assembly constituency — sworn and signed by him on every page — said that among his immovable properties, along with his house in JP Nagar and an industrial site in Mysore, he owns “agriculture land about 24 acres in Kethaganahalli village, Bidadi Hobli, Ramanagaram. Cost of the land and development including sheds, residential house etc, is Rs 30 lakh.’’
However, additional documents of the RTCs (rights transfer certificates) of survey numbers in Kethaganahalli show the land owned by Kumaraswamy in his own name at that village comes to 40 acres and 58 guntas.
Kethaganahalli village is the second township comprising 1,836 acres, that is part of the next phase of BMIC. This land has only been notified and not acquired as the townships were objected to by the government as “real estate.’’
BMIC project promoters, Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise (NICE), have put all townships on hold till the road area is cleared. Documents also show that another family member of Kumaraswamy — his younger brother Ramesh’s mother-in-law Parimala (wife of Maddur MLA D C Thammanna) — owns land in the area.
Their voices
n Three days ago, on June 8, JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda said he would “slit his throat’’ if it was proved that either he or his family owned any land around the BMIC areas.
n Earlier on the floor of the assembly, then public works minister H D Revanna said neither he nor any member of his family owned any land around the BMIC areas. He offered to give that land free of cost to anyone who could prove it.