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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah who campaigned for the enactment campaigner for the 2nd time successful Davangere South Assembly Constituency connected Thursday claimed that the radical person understood the world of the BJP which, according to him, has not taken up immoderate improvement enactment and that is wherefore the Congress received overwhelming enactment from voters successful Davangere.
Speaking to presspersons astatine the helipad successful Davangere, Mr. Siddaramaiah claimed that the radical person present realised that the BJP erstwhile successful powerfulness lone looted the State without doing immoderate improvement work.
“On the different hand, contempt the canards being dispersed by the BJP that the warrant schemes volition beryllium stopped, the Congress authorities efficaciously implemented them and continues to rotation retired benefits to beneficiaries. So far, ₹1,31,000 crore person been spent for the purpose,” helium said.
The Chief Minister said that the State’s borrowings are wrong the fiscal work headdress of 25% of the GDP and fiscal shortage stood astatine 2.95%. As the State has not received its rightful stock of grants from the Union government, it has not been imaginable to execute gross surplus, helium claimed.
Mr. Siddaramaiah said that up of Bihar polls, GST rates were reduced causing losses to the tune of ₹1,000 crore to the State. As the Centre “failed” to springiness the requisite GST compensation and special grants, gross surplus could not beryllium achieved. BJP State President B.Y. Vijayendra is making mendacious accusations and demanding White Paper connected the State fiscal information without really verifying each these factors, helium said.
On the erstwhile Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s request for disclosing documents connected the State’s borrowings, helium said that each the fiscal details person been intelligibly mentioned successful the State Budget. And, during the BJP’s rule, the State borrowed ₹5,30,000 crore, helium said and clarified that determination is nary scope for corruption successful implementing the warrant schemes.
On the pending bills of contractors, helium said that during the BJP rule, determination was ₹29,000 crore of unpaid bills of contractors of which ₹24,000 crore has been paid and these details person been fixed successful a written reply during the Budget Session, helium said.
Replying to a query, helium said that the State authorities is committed to implementing internal reservation. The BJP has ever been pro rich, portion the Congress is distributing benefits nether warrant schemes to each the needy, including those voters supporting the BJP, helium said.
To different query, Mr. Siddaramaiah said that a full of 56,432 posts volition beryllium filled during the twelvemonth and it volition beryllium done successful a phased manner.
Brisk campaign
On Thursday, the Chief Minister was engaged successful brisk campaigning crossed assorted places of the Assembly segment. He visited Virabhadreshwar Swami and Durga Parameshwari Temple astatine Halepet and Hazrat Khadak Sha wali Darga astatine Shivaji Nagar successful Davangere.
He was accompanied by Ministers Eshwar Khandre, S.S. Mallikarjun, MLC Govindraju and others.
The Chief Minister held a roadshow astatine RMC Link Road, Hagedibba Circle, Hondada Circle and different places and made an entreaty connected behalf of Congress campaigner Samarth Shamanuru Mallikarjun.
