Okay Chandrashekar Rao accused the Karnataka authorities of conspiring towards Hyderabad (File)
Bengaluru:
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar and Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao on Saturday engaged in a spat over a purported letter by the Congress chief to Foxconn chairman to shift the Apple AirPods manufacturing unit from Hyderabad to Karnataka.
KCR alleged that Dk Shivakumar wrote to a number of nationwide and worldwide firms in Hyderabad to shift their factories to Karnataka.
Mr Shivakumar rubbished the cost saying that the letter based mostly on which KCR made the allegation was pretend. He additionally received an FIR registered at Vidhana Soudha police station towards the creator of the pretend letter.
The Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) at this time accused the Karnataka authorities, particularly Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, of conspiring towards Hyderabad.
“Karnataka Congress authorities has hatched an enormous conspiracy towards Hyderabad. Massive conspiracy by Karnataka Deputy CM DK Shivakumar to maneuver nationwide and worldwide firms from Hyderabad to Karnataka,” the BRS mentioned in Telugu on its “X” deal with.
The BRS alleged that the letters have been written to many firms providing incentives to come back to Bengaluru.
“DK Shivakumar wrote a letter to the CEO of the corporate to maneuver the Foxconn firm that manufactures Apple AirPods from Hyderabad to ‘Bangalore’. Kannada media launched that letter,” the message on “X” mentioned.
The social gathering alleged that Kannada and English media have reported that the conspiracy to maneuver firms is actual.
“For elections, they’ve focused Hyderabad. The Congress authorities in Karnataka is plotting to shift industries from Telangana to Bengaluru. Let’s reverse the conspiracies of Congress. Let’s carry again our KCR authorities which has Telangana Pleasure,” the BRS mentioned.
The social gathering additionally posted the purported letter written by DK Shivakumar with a inexperienced stamp of the Authorities of Karnataka on prime of it, to Younger Liu, the chairman of Hon Hai Precision Trade Firm Restricted (Foxconn Expertise Group).
In addition to asking Younger Liu to put money into Karnataka, the letter learn, “On behalf of our authorities, I suggest that you just take into account relocating the Apple AirPods trade, which you propose to arrange in Hyderabad to ‘Bangalore’.”
“This transfer holds quite a few mutual advantages. Not solely it can complement the Apple cellphone manufacturing trade, however it can additionally leverage town’s transportation amenities, infrastructure, and accessible workforce,” it additional mentioned.
The letter mentioned a number of worldwide industries in Hyderabad have expressed curiosity in relocating to Bengaluru.
“We anticipate forming a pleasant authorities in Telangana quickly, assuring that you’ll encounter no hindrances there. Therefore, it could be mutually useful to your ancillary trade to make the transfer as nicely,” it added.
DK Shivakumar hit again at Mr Rao for his accusations.
“At the moment the Telangana Chief Minister had a press convention. He’s very scared. He has accepted the defeat of his social gathering,” the Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister mentioned.
He mentioned Mr Rao posted a pretend letter on the micro-blogging website and commented on it.
“It’s a pretend letter. My letter has completely different traits. My letter has numbers. My letterhead won’t be in inexperienced color. It’s an extraordinary legislator’s letter which MLAs used to make use of some 15 years in the past. No MLA is utilizing green-coloured letterhead now. I do know that,” DK Shivakumar underlined.
In accordance with him, MLAs don’t use green-coloured letterhead within the Karnataka meeting.
Seeing a conspiracy of the BRS, the Deputy Chief Minister mentioned, “I do not know why these BRS folks stooped to such a stage and the chief minister is commenting on it.”
DK Shivakumar, who can be Congress Karnataka president, mentioned he has requested his secretary to lodge a police criticism on the Vidhana Soudha police station.
“Somebody has misused (signature). They’ve taken my digital signature and put it on that (letter) requesting Foxconn to be shifted,” he claimed.
“It is vitally unlucky however the investigation will go on. It was a pretend letter. We now have not issued such a kind of letter,” he mentioned.
In accordance with DK Shivakumar, many multinational firms on their very own have proven a willingness to put money into Karnataka ” this sturdy authorities”.
On this context, he mentioned he had a gathering with the Toyota executives who needed to develop their enterprise in Bangalore.
Lamenting the event, he mentioned, “Our Telangana counterpart needn’t must be concerned in such a small… I’m very sorry for that.”
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