Bengaluru: Chief Minister Basavaraji bommai Told the assembly on Monday that the government was unable to curb the menace of online gambling because the operators are “too powerful”.
The government had enacted a comprehensive law that banned online game betting and betting in October last year, but the Karnataka High Court on February 15 struck down the Karnataka Police (Amendment) Act and declared it to be against the Constitution. .
“We carefully studied the laws of other states that had banned online gaming and enacted a comprehensive law after plugging the loopholes,” Bommai said. “Despite that, online gambling continues. The situation is the same in other states as well. It just shows how powerful the online betting operators are. ,
Bommai was answering Ramesh Kumar, Congress MLA, who pointed out that the risk of betting is increasing during the IPL season. “We have made the game of cricket a race,” said the former speaker. “Please ask the police to act before the situation gets out of control. ,
Bommai said several authorities had tried to stop him from bringing in a law to regulate online gambling. “But I stood my ground because I know how families are being ruined by this menace,” he said.
He also revealed that a gaming operator had approached him with a proposal to provide free COVID-19 vaccines to one lakh people of his constituency, Shiggaon, if he abandoned his efforts to ban online gaming. “I told him that I don’t want a share in his wrongly earned money,” Bommai said.
During his tenure as Home Minister, gambling was made a cognizable offense and the punishment was increased from six months to one year to three to five years, he said. “Earlier, gambling was a non-cognizable offense and the accused used to get bail from the station and resume his business. Most social clubs are namesake only; What really happens is gambling,” he said.
Later, during the debate on the budget, Kumar also raised serious concerns over rising corruption among politicians and appealed to the Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs. Jesse Madhuswamy Requesting the House to pass a resolution Election Commission of India To periodically check the assets and liabilities declared by the MLAs and initiate investigation if discrepancies are found.
“Declaration of assets and liabilities by MLAs has become a joke,” Kumar said. “There is no system to verify this and the wealth of some politicians increases manifold in just a few years. We should pass a resolution so that the Election Commission can scrutinize the announcements. ,
Kumar claimed two companies, Muthoot Finance and Manappuram Finance Limited, there is about “2,000 tonnes of gold” that was pawned by people in distress. He urged the government to take strict action against such companies. He said that banks have given loans of about Rs 3.8 lakh crore to the non-priority sector, while the priority sector which includes agriculture got only Rs 6,536 crores. He said that the bad loans of public sector banks have increased to 8% as compared to 2% of cooperative sector banks, indicating that big corporates are among the defaulters, while farmers are quick to repay.
The government had enacted a comprehensive law that banned online game betting and betting in October last year, but the Karnataka High Court on February 15 struck down the Karnataka Police (Amendment) Act and declared it to be against the Constitution. .
“We carefully studied the laws of other states that had banned online gaming and enacted a comprehensive law after plugging the loopholes,” Bommai said. “Despite that, online gambling continues. The situation is the same in other states as well. It just shows how powerful the online betting operators are. ,
Bommai was answering Ramesh Kumar, Congress MLA, who pointed out that the risk of betting is increasing during the IPL season. “We have made the game of cricket a race,” said the former speaker. “Please ask the police to act before the situation gets out of control. ,
Bommai said several authorities had tried to stop him from bringing in a law to regulate online gambling. “But I stood my ground because I know how families are being ruined by this menace,” he said.
He also revealed that a gaming operator had approached him with a proposal to provide free COVID-19 vaccines to one lakh people of his constituency, Shiggaon, if he abandoned his efforts to ban online gaming. “I told him that I don’t want a share in his wrongly earned money,” Bommai said.
During his tenure as Home Minister, gambling was made a cognizable offense and the punishment was increased from six months to one year to three to five years, he said. “Earlier, gambling was a non-cognizable offense and the accused used to get bail from the station and resume his business. Most social clubs are namesake only; What really happens is gambling,” he said.
Later, during the debate on the budget, Kumar also raised serious concerns over rising corruption among politicians and appealed to the Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs. Jesse Madhuswamy Requesting the House to pass a resolution Election Commission of India To periodically check the assets and liabilities declared by the MLAs and initiate investigation if discrepancies are found.
“Declaration of assets and liabilities by MLAs has become a joke,” Kumar said. “There is no system to verify this and the wealth of some politicians increases manifold in just a few years. We should pass a resolution so that the Election Commission can scrutinize the announcements. ,
Kumar claimed two companies, Muthoot Finance and Manappuram Finance Limited, there is about “2,000 tonnes of gold” that was pawned by people in distress. He urged the government to take strict action against such companies. He said that banks have given loans of about Rs 3.8 lakh crore to the non-priority sector, while the priority sector which includes agriculture got only Rs 6,536 crores. He said that the bad loans of public sector banks have increased to 8% as compared to 2% of cooperative sector banks, indicating that big corporates are among the defaulters, while farmers are quick to repay.