Siddaramaiah in soup over £ 70,000 watch

BENGALURU: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has pushed Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah into a corner over the £ 70,000 worth watch he received as a gift, calling for a probe into the matter. The state's BJP leader S Prakash said, “When you break a law, making amends and then saying that I am clean is not acceptable. He should have declared the moment the watch was gifted to him. Source of the gift and why it was gifted, he should have declared in much earlier. Now, he is doing it as an afterthought. This means that he has accepted the crime committed.” He asked, “he should be punished. Inquiry must be held for the source of this watch. Does the government have the account of all the expensive gifts he has received?” After he faced flak for the expensive piece, he had reportedly decided to declare it as an asset before the Income Tax Department and the Lokayukta.