K'taka Cong MLA says bribery claims in house allotments true, DKS condemns allegations

SENIOR Congress MLA B R Patil on Saturday said that his claims about bribery in the allotment of public housing were true, even as Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar condemned the legislator's statement and made it clear that such things cannot be accepted.

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Patil, who is also the Karnataka State Policy and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, had alleged bribery in the allotment of houses in a phone conversation with Housing Minister B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan's private secretary Sarfaraz Khan, causing embarrassment to his own party government in the state. The conversation went viral. "I don't accept it for any reason. I have not understood what he (Patil) has said. The matter has come to the notice of the chief minister. He will take necessary action," Shivakumar told reporters here. "When house allotments are happening in a transparent way, how can any beneficiary pay the money?