Balabrooie: AAP opposes status change

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) asked the State government to reverse its decision to convert the Balabrooie Guest House to a legislators club.

The guest house is a heritage structure built in the 1850s and was in July handed over by the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (DPAR) to the Public Works Department (PWD) for the necessary changes.

“Chief Minister Siddaramaiah himself did not attend the meeting held on August 31. It is learnt that he has objections to the conversion of the historic guest house into an entertainment club. While Assembly Speaker UT Khader, Rizwan Arshad, Nayana Motamma and NA Haris attended the meeting. It is no secret that HK Patil, Council Chairman Basavaraja Horatti, Sivalinge Gowda and many senior ministers and MLAs who were present in the meeting do not support the idea of making a club. Why do you proceed to make an entertainment club even if there is no consensus in the meeting? Whose pressure is behind this?” AAP Karnataka Head of Communication Department Brijesh Kalappa asked.

He condemned the state government’s decision to convert the Balabrooie heritage guest house in the heart of the city into a ‘Constitution Club’, which he regarded as a euphemism for an entertainment club.