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Ridiculing BJP State portion president B.Y. Vijayendra for celebrating his day and spending a nighttime with sugarcane growers protesting successful Belagavi, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah connected Sunday said that helium should person alternatively “slept successful the houses of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah oregon Union Minister Pralhad Joshi,” arsenic it is the Union authorities that decides the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) for sugarcane.
Speaking successful Kudligi municipality aft inaugurating assorted improvement projects, including the ₹859-crore strategy to capable 74 tanks successful Kudligi taluk of Vijayanagara district, Mr. Siddaramaiah called the BJP leader’s Belagavi sojourn “a governmental drama”.
“Who decides the FRP for sugarcane? It is not the State government, but the Central authorities that fixes the FRP each year. Mr. Joshi is the Minister concerned. Mr. Vijayendra slept determination successful the agitation structure on with the farmers and adjacent celebrated his day there. Instead, helium should person slept successful the houses of Mr. Modi, Mr. Shah and Mr. Joshi demanding a just terms for sugarcane,” the Chief Minister said.
As Mr. Vijayendra himself said, the Chief Minister quoted him arsenic saying, helium met the agitating farmers arsenic a lad of the erstwhile Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, not arsenic a BJP leader.
“He has, indeed, gone determination to provoke farmers and instigate them against the State government. We resolved the contented by offering ₹50 from the State and convincing the sweetener mills to adhd ₹50 more, making the FRP ₹3,300 per tonne,” Mr. Siddaramaiah said.
Vote chori
Training his guns astatine the BJP’s “moral credentials”, Mr. Siddaramaiah accused that enactment of “stealing votes” to seizure powerfulness successful respective States.
“The BJP assumed powerfulness astatine the Centre and successful immoderate States done ballot chori. They don’t person adjacent a minimum consciousness of shame. If they had it, they would person resigned and gone home. They person stolen votes successful Mahadevpura and Aland constituencies successful Karnataka and successful Maharashtra and Haryana,” helium claimed.
“They stole votes a mates of days agone successful Bihar too. Those who voted successful Delhi person besides voted successful Bihar. A azygous location successful the Mahadevpura constituency has 80 votes. Is that possible? The BJP cannot support distant from power. Without it, it feels suffocated similar food retired of water,” helium again claimed.
State’s finances
Responding to the BJP disapproval that the State authorities is “bankrupt” due to the fact that of its spending connected warrant schemes, Mr. Siddaramaiah said that the authorities has capable funds for some improvement projects and payment programmes.
“In two-and-a-half years, Kudligi constituency unsocial has received ₹1,250 crore for improvement works. We person spent ₹1.12 lakh crore connected subsidies, including power. Would this beryllium imaginable if our authorities were bankrupt? We person capable gross to money warrant schemes and improvement initiatives,” helium said and asserted that the Congress authorities volition fulfil each 513 promises made successful its 2023 predetermination manifesto.
The Chief Minister formally inaugurated a task for filling 74 tanks astatine a outgo of ₹859 crore. This is expected to irrigate 14,050 acres and payment implicit 1.67 lakh radical successful Kudligi taluk. The full outgo of projects inaugurated and those for which instauration stones person been laid during the lawsuit is ₹1,250 crore.
Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, Public Works Minister Satish Jarkiholi, Housing Minister and Vijayanagara territory in-charge Zameer Ahmad Khan, Labour Minister Santosh Lad, Minor Irrigation Minister N.S. Boseraju and Kudligi MLA N.T. Srinivas, among others, attended the event.
