Somanna terms State government as “directionless’’

Minister of State for Railways V. Somanna lashed retired astatine the Congress and said that the State authorities is directionless.

Speaking to the media successful the metropolis connected Sunday (November 23), Mr. Somanna alleged that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has ‘’deviated significantly’’ from his earlier benignant of enactment and is antithetic from what helium was during his archetypal tenure arsenic the Chief Minister.

“Siddaramaiah is moving a authorities without direction. He has changed a batch and is not the Siddaramaiah I erstwhile knew,’’ remarked the Minister, accusing the Chief Minister of ‘’arrogance and corruption’’.

Launching a crisp onslaught connected the State government, helium said it lacks clarity and cohesion, evident successful the ongoing tussle for power.

The interior divisions wrong the ruling Congress has weakened governance, helium said, alleging that each person is moving astatine transverse purposes and moving successful a antithetic direction. The enactment appears to beryllium torn asunder and the Congress is focusing connected governmental manoeuvring alternatively than nationalist welfare, the Minister added.

“The mandate fixed by the radical is being squandered and misused. Voters volition thatch the Congress a lesson,’’ helium said.

The authorities came nether flak for dithering connected infrastructure and improvement issues, and Mr. Somanna pointed retired that Congress leaders are preoccupied with securing their positions alternatively of focusing connected governance.

He referred to allegations of the 40 per cent committee levelled by the Congress against the BJP successful the run-up to the Assembly elections successful 2023 and said nary of it was proven. “But the aforesaid Congress tin beryllium accused of seeking a 70 per cent commission,’’ helium added.

Refuting suggestions that the BJP volition effort to marque a governmental summation successful the contiguous concern wrong the Congress, Mr. Somanna said radical themselves volition ballot for the BJP successful the adjacent elections.