Bengaluru: Lokayukta Karnataka Post tends to remain empty for some time because the BJP government does not seem to be in a hurry to appoint a new head of corruption supervisors.
Lokayukta Justice P Vishwanath Shetty The five-year term ended on January 27, and officials said CM Basavaraj Bommai wanted to conduct a thorough test in choosing candidates for posting and discussing BJP leadership.
As a rule, the minister’s chairman must appoint Lokayukta by consulting opposition leaders in the Legislative Council and the Board, the speaker of the Assembly, Chair of the Board, and the Chair of the High Court.
The authorities said none of them had received communication from the minister’s office about the new Lokayukta appointment.
A retired Supreme Court judge or retired main justice from the High Court or the person who has served as a judge of the High Court for ten years fulfilling the requirements.
“We have never heard of processes initiated by the office of the minister’s chairman regarding the appointment of Lokayukta, also not we received an invitation to meetings on it.
I waited,” said the Chairman of the Legislative Council of the Basavaraj Horatti.
“It was very disappointing that CM was delayed.
Lokayukta is an important post in the administrative system that the government should not let it fall empty,” said opposition leader in the Assembly, Siddaramaiiah.
Ironically, it was during the Congress regime led by Siddaramaiiah that the Lokayukta post fell passively for two years before Viswanath Shetty was appointed in January 2017.
Furthermore, Siddaramaiiah has been criticized for disarming Lokayukta from his power to investigate and demand it as a government to create an anti-corruption agency (ACB) .
He did not take the immediate step to appoint Lokayukta after Justice Y Bhaskar Rao resigned about allegations of corruption in 2015.
This problem also gave the road to the Slugfest between the powerful BJP and the main opposition, Congress.
The Secretary General of the National BJP CT Ravi said: “Siddaramaiiah spoke support Lokayukta sounded like a devil who quoted the Bible for his own purpose.” Even BJP failed to maintain the promise of polls to strengthen Lokayukta by canceling ACB.
Pending petition batches seeking ACB with Lokayukta will listen in the High Court on 3.
February “because there are no political parties interested in strengthening Lokayukta, the Government in a row does not care about it.
Good Congress and BJP do not have moral rights for Speaking of institutions, “said the former Hakstand Lokayukta N Santosh Hegde.
Greater concern is fat cases.
There were 8,967 cases that were delayed, while one of the two Pos UPA Lokayuka was empty for more than a year now.
“There is one Lokayukta upa at this time, and he can only maintain administrative problems without Lokayukta.
I hope the government will find the earliest substitute,” Vishwanath Shetty said.