Siddaramaiah smells scam in transfers

The state government has turned transfer of its

employees into a ‘money spinning business’ said, Leader of Opposition in the

state Assembly Siddaramaiah here on Wednesday.Speaking to reporters, the Congress leader criticized the

decision of the state government to transfer government employees.“It is a multicrore transfer scam. The state government

should focus on drought relief works rather than transferring employees,” said

Siddaramaiah.On his visit to New Delhi on Wednesday, Siddaramaiah said

that it is regarding the review of the party’s poll preparedness in Karnataka.He, however, predicted early elections to the Assembly.

Siddaramaiah said that the Congress was ready to face the polls and would come

back to power in the state.He said that a meeting of the senior party leaders from the

state including, MPs, ministers, AICC functionaries has been convened by the

party’s high command on Wednesday to discuss the poll strategies.On Union Labour Minister and senior leader Mallikarjuna

Kharge’s comment that the Congress had lost the 2008 Assembly elections because

of lack of unity in the party, Siddaramaiah said, “Our only focus now is to win

the upcoming Assembly elections. It is not the time to hold introspection on

the party’s defeat.”The Congress leader demanded the state government to change

the cut off date to benefit more farmers from the `25,000 crop loan waive

scheme from April 1, 2011 instead of August 2011. Siddaramaiah said that the

state government is yet to pass an order to effect the announcement made in the

last session of Assembly.