Karnataka govt. raising non-issues to mislead public from real problems, alleges H.D. Kumaraswamy

Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Steel H.D. Kumaraswamy has alleged that the Congress authorities successful Karnataka was raising non-issues to divert people’s attraction from its failures arsenic a ruling party.

In a property league successful Hassan connected Friday, Mr. Kumaraswamy said that the radical successful powerfulness had been “hovering successful the sky”. They should travel down to the crushed to recognize the realities and respond to the people’s problems; the five-guarantee schemes unsocial would not resoluteness each the issues that had been troubling the mediocre farmers, the Union Minister said.

Stating that helium had the assurance successful the radical of the State, Mr. Kumaraswamy said nary substance however severely the radical successful powerfulness function, the communal radical had the spot to capable up the State’s exchequer. Even aft spending wealth for the warrant schemes, the authorities could springiness attraction to the improvement works, helium added. “The contiguous authorities has been looting wealth from the people’s pockets by expanding taxes. I had demanded that the authorities merchandise a achromatic insubstantial connected the utilisation of taxation money. However, the authorities did not respond,” helium stated.

Taking objection to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s connection connected the favoritism against legislators of Opposition parties, Mr. Kumaraswamy said helium was acceptable for an unfastened statement connected the merchandise of funds for improvement works during Mr. Siddaramaiah’s tenure. “When I came to powerfulness starring the JD(S)-Congress conjugation successful 2018, I gave ₹19,000 crore for Congress MLAs, adjacent aft waiving disconnected the workplace loans. I gave these details to Mr. Siddaramaiah then,” helium said.

Reacting to a question connected the allegations of the contractors’ association, the Union Minister said that the accusation of corruption was existent and determination was nary uncertainty successful that. “The Congress came to powerfulness making allegations against the PayCM run by the BJP. Have they been capable to bring retired the information astir immoderate corruption? They constituted a committee to probe, which did not travel retired with the specifics, but for stating that determination was corruption,” Mr. Kumaraswamy said.

Referring to the contented of restricting the activities of RSS successful government-owned places, Mr. Kumaraswamy said that the State authorities gave truthful overmuch value to the contented lone to fell their failures. “They cannot prohibition the RSS. Now, successful the Cabinet, they person taken a determination that support is indispensable for the backstage organisation to clasp programmes. Was it necessary? When Nathuram Godse killed Mahatma Gandhi, the RSS was banned. However, Jawaharlal Nehru himself removed the prohibition later. What is the intent of raising the contented now? They rise it lone to make rifts and mislead the nationalist from the existent problems,” helium stated.

Responding to a question connected ballot theft successful the Aland constituency, Mr. Kumaraswamy wanted to cognize however Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar could foretell that his enactment would triumph 136 seats earlier the elections. “Actually, they are the ones who stole the votes. But now, they are blaming others. If determination was ballot theft successful Aland, however could a Congress campaigner triumph successful the constituency?” helium asked. In the lawsuit of the Dharmasthala issue, Mr. Kumaraswamy said, the authorities formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe based connected a requisition from 3 people. “What did the SIT do? They lone arrested Chinnaiah, the whistleblower. What astir the rest, who created the issue? They are each roaming free,” helium stated.

Regarding the Social and Educational Survey, Mr. Kumaraswamy remarked that immoderate was going connected successful the State was not the existent caste census. “It is really the Siddaramaiah census,” helium said.

Mr. Kumaraswamy was successful Hassan with his household members to sojourn the Hasanamba Temple. JD(S) legislators and enactment leaders accompanied him to the property conference.

Expressing his views connected farmers’ demands successful the State, Mr. Kumaraswamy said that some the ruling enactment and the Opposition parties failed successful completing their duties, leaving the farmers disappointed.

Mr. Kumaraswamy said that the Congress authorities failed to code the problems of the farmers, who were deed by floods recently. “At the aforesaid time, the Opposition parties — our partners — had the work of alerting the ruling government. But, I judge they did not relation successful tune with the expectations of the farmers,” helium said.

The JD(S) person said that the lone large contented being discussed successful the State for past 2 months was the imaginable alteration successful enactment successful the Congress government. “It is enough. You person spent two-and-half-years without responding to people’s existent issues. Focus connected them astatine slightest now,” helium added.