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Hegde
bows to pressure, for the second time within a year
Saturday April 23, 2011 08:47:01 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore:
For the second time within a year, Karnataka Lokayukta N. Santosh
Hegde has bowed to pressure to stay, this time on the panel to
draft the Lokpal bill to curb corruption at the national level.
Hegde, a retired Supreme Court judge, had threatened to leave the
panel after his success in checking corruption in Karnataka was
questioned by Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh.
Hegde had quit as Karnataka Lokayukta on June 23 last year upset
at "non-cooperation" of the Bharatiya Janata Party government in
the state in the fight against graft.
For ten days he refused to budge, ignoring appeals from hundreds
of people in Karnataka, Congress and Janata Dal-Secular parties in
the state, central home minister P. Chidambaram and BJP president
Nitin Gadkari and a somewhat reluctant Chief Minister B.S.
Yeddyurappa.
However, a phone call from senior BJP leader L.K. Advani made him
change his mind.
"He is like a father figure to me. I cannot say no to him," Hegde
said July 3 announcing he was withdrawing his resignation.
He faced flak for not bowing to public pressure but to a phone
call from Advani.
Hegde was quick to control the damage saying he was sorry and he
did not mean to say that he had no regard for appeals from the
public. He acknowledged that the public pressure had played a role
in making him change his mind.
This time, however, Hegde would not face any flak.
He had only announced that he was thinking of quitting the draft
panel as he was "hurt" by Digvijay's comments and would take a
final decision after consulting other civil society members on the
panel.
Hegde was born on June 16, 1940 at Nitte, now in Udupi district on
Karnataka's west coast. His father, K.S. Hegde, was also a lawyer
and later judge of the Supreme Court. The senior Hegde served as
BJP vice president and also as Lok Sabha speaker.
Nitte Santosh Hegde started law practice in Bangalore in January
1966 and was designated a senior advocate in May 1984.
He was Karnataka's advocate general from 1984 to 1988, additional
solicitor general of India for 11 months from December 1989,
solicitor general of India for about eight months in 1998 and was
appointed a Supreme Court judge on Jan 8, 1999.
He retired in 2005 and for a short period headed the Telecom
Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal.
Hegde became Karnataka Lokayukta in August 2006. His five-year
term ends in about three months.
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