Belagavi: Accusing Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of pushing the state to the brink of bankruptcy and into a debt cycle, state BJP chief, B S Yeddyurappa claimed here on Monday he had taken loans of over Rs 1.2 lakh crore to run his government.
Addressing a rally during the BJP's Parivartana Yatra in Shahpur, Belagavi district, he alleged that Mr Siddaramaiah was leading such a penniless government that he had to divert over Rs 1,400 crore from the public sector, Mysore Minerals, to settle the accounts of banks after waiving farmers’ loans. “Siddaramaiah also mortgaged the corner sites in government layouts and industrial areas to collect Rs 975 crore to run his government. This is such an insolvent government that it doesn’t have money to pay the salaries of private secretaries to MLAs and MLCs,'' he charged.
Mr Yeddyurappa promised that if elected to run the state in 2018, his government would link all reservoirs to provide irrigation to farmers and set up a Rs 10,000 crore fund to regulate farm prices.
Union Minister, H N Ananth Kumar, who also addressed the rally, ridiculed the state government’s campaign centred on Mr Siddharam-aiah’s dreams for Karnataka.
Corruption is in DNA of Congmen: Raman Singh
Describing the Congress government in Karnataka as the ‘most corrupt’ in the country, Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh quoted a research study conducted by the Centre for Media Studies which said Karnataka tops in corruption.
Addressing the Nava Karnataka Parivartana Yatra of BJP in Belagavi on Monday, he said corruption was in the DNA of Congressmen. ''Former PM Rajiv Gandhi had admitted that a megre Rs 15 of Rs 100 released by the Centre under various schemes, reached the beneficiaries. It means a major chunk of Rs 85 is eaten up by party workers,” recalled Mr Singh while urging people to throw out the corrupt Congress from power and install a BJP government.
He accused CM Siddaramaiah of reverting on the MoU to set up a pit head power production plant at Chattisgarh that was signed by former CM B.S. Yeddyurappa when he was CM. If the MoU had been implemented, it would have provided enough power to Karnataka to tide over the power crisis.
