It seems there is no end to the controversy surrounding Karantaka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's diamond studded watch. The Bharatiya Janata Party MPs from Karnataka on Friday protested at the Gandhi statue outside Parliament demanding a CBI enquiry in the case.
Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa led the protests saying there are many loopholes in CM's version of events and the issue does not end just because he has declared it a state asset.
"We are demanding a CBI enquiry because lot of loopholes are there. According to us that is a smuggled watch. He has returned that watch to the speaker but it doesn't mean that he is a clean man," Yeddyurappa said.
Siddaramaiah handed over his expensive Hublot watch to the government as a state asset. He handed over the watch to the Speaker with a declaration saying it should be forwarded to the Chief Secretary as a state asset and kept in the state cabinet hall.
He said the watch, which is said to cost several lakhs of rupees, was gifted to him by a Dubai-based non resident Indian friend Dr Girish Chandra Varma who "did not have any official dealings" with the government.
"By following the precedents set by my predecessors in office declare that the gifted watch Hublot Big Bang 301-M as a state asset," said the declaration.
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