If govt. is bankrupt, how are mega development works getting completed: CM

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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Leader AICC president   Mallikarjun Kharge and different   Ministers question    to the assemblage  arsenic  they get  for the State level   location   organisation  programme successful  Hubballi connected  Saturday.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Leader AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge and different Ministers question to the assemblage arsenic they get for the State level location organisation programme successful Hubballi connected Saturday. | Photo Credit: KIRAN BAKALE

Lambasting the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders for making accusations clip and again against the State authorities going bankrupt due to the fact that of warrant schemes, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah connected Saturday sought to cognize from them if the authorities had gone bankrupt, however specified improvement works similar gathering 42,345 houses crossed the State were being completed.

He was addressing a immense gathering disconnected Mantur Road successful Hubballi connected Saturday organised to people the inauguration and organisation of 42,345 houses built by the Karnataka Slum Development Board (KSDB) by utilising Chief Minister’s peculiar grants nether the PM Awas Yojna crossed the State.

The Chief Minister said that successful the past 2 years, the State authorities had spent ₹1.16 lakh crore for implementation of the 5 warrant schemes. And this apart, the authorities had spent respective 1000 crores of rupees for improvement works successful irrigation, health, acquisition and different sectors. “For gathering houses alone, we person spent ₹5,500 crore successful the past 2 and a fractional year. And if the authorities has gone bankrupt, past however are the improvement works getting completed?  BJP leaders don’t recognize the problems of the mediocre and they support connected telling lies for the involvement of politics”, helium alleged.

Mr. Siddaramaiah said that during the erstwhile Congress regime, they had built 14,58,000 houses against the 5 lakh houses that were built during the BJP regime. “Of the 165 canvass promises, we fulfilled 158 during our past tenure. And of the 592 canvass promises we had made earlier coming to powerfulness this time, we person fulfilled 243 of them already. Ours is simply a pro-people authorities and we volition fulfil each of them successful the remaining tenure,” helium said.

Listing retired the unfulfilled promises of the BJP authorities astatine the Centre and the ‘achhe din’ that ne'er came, helium urged Union Minister Pralhad Joshi to get wood and biology clearances for the Mahadayi Project and they were acceptable to initiate the works immediately. He besides mentioned the reduced grants to the State from the Centre.

Jai Bhim

Beginning his code with ‘Jai Bhim’ slogan, Housing Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan said that had it not been for the Constitution of India framed by B.R. Ambedkar, radical from underprivileged communities would not person been capable to travel to the mainstream and go leaders.

Mr. Khan reiterated the govenrment’s committedness to providing houses to the slum dwellers and those not having imperishable houses, and briefed astir the efforts made to trim the load connected the beneficiaries. Lambasting the BJP leaders for playing politics, the Minister alleged that isolated from playing the religion paper for the involvement of winning elections, the BJP was slightest bothered astir the poor. Barring erstwhile curate Somanna who made attempts, nary successful the erstwhile BJP authorities was acrophobic astir gathering houses for the poor, helium alleged.

Labour Minister and district-in-charge for Dharwad Santosh Lad said that dissimilar the BJP which made ‘false promises’, the Congress authorities worked for the poor, and said that specified a mega lodging task had not been undertaken successful immoderate of the BJP-ruled States successful the country.

Making introductory remarks, KSDB Chairman and MLA Prasad Abbayya briefed astir however coordinated efforts nether the enactment of Housing Minister Zameer Ahmed and Chief Minister’s special grants had helped successful gathering houses for the poor.

A big of Ministers, including Mahadev Prasad, H.K. Patil, Satish Jarkiholi, and respective legislators, including B.K. Hariprasad, F.H. Jakkappanavar, Saleem Ahmed and others, took portion successful the event. Although Chairman of Legislative Council Basavaraj Horatti attended the event, helium near midway owed to different anterior engagements.

Published - January 24, 2026 08:14 p.m. IST

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