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Leader of the Opposition R. Ashok connected Monday termed the ruling Congress authorities arsenic “the astir corrupt” and alleged that the fig of backward taluks successful the State had accrued from 114 to 172 owing to corruption and mediocre fiscal management.
Speaking connected the question of acknowledgment to the Governor’s code successful the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Ashok said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who besides holds the Finance portfolio, had presented 16 Budgets implicit the past 3 decades, yet determination imbalances had worsened. Citing the M. Govinda Rao Committee study connected determination imbalances, helium said the fig of backward taluks should ideally person reduced to less than 100, particularly successful a State mostly governed by the Congress.
The D.M. Najundappa committee connected determination imbalances classified 114 taluks arsenic backward successful 2002.
Mr. Ashok alleged large-scale misuse of nationalist funds, claiming that ₹5,000 crore meant for beneficiaries nether the Gruha Lakshmi strategy for February–March 2025 had not been released. He besides said astir ₹667 crore earmarked for the Anna Bhagya strategy for January 2025 remained unpaid.
Referring to backward taluks successful North Karnataka, helium alleged that not a azygous declaration had been awarded to contractors from Karnataka and claimed that contractors from Andhra Pradesh were favoured and commissions collected. Quoting the Karnataka Contractors’ Association, helium alleged that corruption had doubled successful assorted departments. He questioned wherefore nary cases had been registered against KSCA office-bearers if the authorities had not received commissions.
Mr. Ashok besides cited caller incidents, including the Lokayukta constabulary arresting a constabulary serviceman portion accepting a ₹4 lakh bribe successful Bengaluru and a cause racket crackdown by the Maharashtra constabulary successful the city.
He opposed the State government’s determination to reason the caller agrarian occupation strategy of the Centre, noting that the authorities had passed 18 resolutions against the Centre, thereby straining Centre–State relations. He claimed that the S.M. Krishna-led authorities had not passed immoderate specified resolutions.
On Congress objections to the removal of Mahatma Gandhi’s sanction from the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar Ajeevika Mission (Gramin), which replaced MGNREGA, Mr. Ashok alleged that the Congress selectively named institutions aft what helium termed “nakli (fake) Gandhis.” including Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, and Rahul Gandhi. He claimed that implicit 445 institutions, parks, hospitals and playgrounds had been named aft them.
