Chief Minister Siddaramaiah told the media in Bengaluru that the government was examining registering a case against the ruling coalition in Maharashtra for running an ad campaign calling the state’s guarantee schemes as fake.
Siddaramaiah listed out the programmes the state’s Congress regime came up with and said people cutting across communities and religions had benefited from them. The government, he added, was spending Rs 56,000 crore a year on them, while wondering why the BJP was not implementing the same in states it was in power.
The CM has been on an offensive against the BJP and the ruling coalition in Maharashtra for what he called releasing misleading ads in the media, maligning Karnataka’s welfare programmes.Speaking at Solapur, last week, Siddaramaiah said he was prepared to arrange a flight for the PM and others to see for themselves if the state government had not implemented guarantees. He urged the ruling coalition to withdraw the ad and apologize to people.
He said only the Congress and the Maha Vikas Aghadi could implement the guarantees they have promised and defeat the BJP and its partners. He also said he would resign if the PM found the Congress had not implemented the guarantees in Karnataka.
Siddaramaiah also wondered why the BJP announced guarantees in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh if the PM believed guarantees destroyed the country’s economy.
Source: Economic Times