Ok Chandrashekar Rao accused the Karnataka authorities of conspiring towards Hyderabad (File)
Bengaluru:
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar and Telangana Chief Minister Ok 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 corporations in Hyderabad to shift their factories to Karnataka.
Mr Shivakumar rubbished the cost saying that the letter primarily based on which KCR made the allegation was faux. He additionally received an FIR registered at Vidhana Soudha police station towards the creator of the faux letter.
The Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) at present 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 corporations from Hyderabad to Karnataka,” the BRS stated in Telugu on its “X” deal with.
The BRS alleged that the letters had been written to many corporations 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” stated.
The celebration alleged that Kannada and English media have reported that the conspiracy to maneuver corporations 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 Satisfaction,” the BRS stated.
The celebration additionally posted the purported letter written by DK Shivakumar with a inexperienced stamp of the Authorities of Karnataka on high of it, to Younger Liu, the chairman of Hon Hai Precision Trade Firm Restricted (Foxconn Know-how Group).
Moreover asking Younger Liu to spend money on Karnataka, the letter learn, “On behalf of our authorities, I suggest that you just think about relocating the Apple AirPods business, which you propose to arrange in Hyderabad to ‘Bangalore’.”
“This transfer holds quite a few mutual advantages. Not solely it is going to complement the Apple cellphone manufacturing business, however it is going to additionally leverage the town’s transportation amenities, infrastructure, and obtainable workforce,” it additional stated.
The letter stated 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 might be mutually helpful to your ancillary business to make the transfer as nicely,” it added.
DK Shivakumar hit again at Mr Rao for his accusations.
“At this time the Telangana Chief Minister had a press convention. He’s very scared. He has accepted the defeat of his celebration,” the Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister stated.
He stated Mr Rao posted a faux letter on the micro-blogging website and commented on it.
“It’s a faux letter. My letter has totally different traits. My letter has numbers. My letterhead is not going to be in inexperienced color. It’s an bizarre 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 keeping with him, MLAs don’t use green-coloured letterhead within the Karnataka meeting.
Seeing a conspiracy of the BRS, the Deputy Chief Minister stated, “I do not know why these BRS individuals stooped to such a stage and the chief minister is commenting on it.”
DK Shivakumar, who can be Congress Karnataka president, stated 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 rather unlucky however the investigation will go on. It was a faux letter. Now we have not issued such a sort of letter,” he stated.
In keeping with DK Shivakumar, many multinational corporations on their very own have proven a willingness to spend money on Karnataka “taking a look at this robust authorities”.
On this context, he stated he had a gathering with the Toyota executives who wished to broaden their enterprise in Bangalore.
Lamenting the event, he stated, “Our Telangana counterpart needn’t need to be concerned in such a small… I’m very sorry for that.”
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