The State Cabinet on Thursday put on hold its earlier decision to sell 3,667 acres to JSW Steel Ltd., at Toranagal in Sandur taluk of Ballari district following pending cases in the High Court of Karnataka and the Supreme Court. The Cabinet, at its meeting held on April 26, 2021, decided to sell the land to JSW Steel. The decision to sell the land was strongly opposed by leaders within the ruling BJP and Minister for Infrastructure Development Anand Singh. Kumaraswamy in 2006-07 executed the lease-cum-sale agreement with JSW Steel. Mr .Anand Singh quit the Congress and resigned from the membership of the Legislative Assembly in 2019, opposing the Kumaraswamy government’s decision to sell land to JSW Steel.

Source: The Hindu May 27, 2021 09:45 UTC