Bangalore, Sep 3: As many as 26 legislators including former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy and MLC Ivan D'Souza have failed to declared their assets and liabilities before the Lokayukta for the financial year 2013–14, even after being served with notices two months ago.
Defined as public servants, all legislators should declare their assets and liabilities before the Lokayukta, according to Section 22(1) of the Karnataka Lokayukta Act, 1984. The deadline for declaring the assets every year is June 30.
The Lokayukta had served notices on July 1 to those legislators who had failed to submit the statement of assets and liabilities by June 30 and gave them two months' time. The notice period expired on August 31.
Without elaborating on the timeframe, Lokayukta sources said the 26 legislators will be provided with reasonable time to submit their statements, failing which they would be served show cause notice under Section 176 of the Karnataka Lokayukta Act. A report will be submitted to the Governor.
The MLAs are: H.D. Kumaraswamy (JD-S); Aravind C. Patil (Independent), Ashok Kheny (Kannada Makkala Paksha), H.C. Balakrishna (JD-S), S.S. Channabasappa (Congress), K. Gopala Poojari (Congress), K. Gopalaiah (JD-S), Guru Patil Shirwal (KJP), Gurupadappa Nagamarapalli (BJP), Vijayanand Kashappanavar (Congress), N.H. Konaraddi (JD-S), Mallikarjun Khuba (JD-S), K.S. Manjunath Gowda (JD-S), S. Raghu (BJP), G. Ramakrishna (Congress), M.P. Ravindra (Congress), Bheema Naik (JD-S), Satish Sail (Independent), S. Shivaraj Patil (JD-S) and P.R. Sudhakar Lal (JD-S).
The six MLCs are: Chabbi Nagaraj (Congress), Iqbal Ahmed Saradagi (Congress), Ivan D'Souza (Congress), Jayamala Ramachandra (Congress), G. Raghu Achar (Independent), and V.S. Ugrappa (Congress).
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