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Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah. (File Picture: PTI)
In an announcement, the CM underlined that the BJP authorities allegedly collected ‘40 per cent fee’ from contractors for executing initiatives
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his ‘tech metropolis to tanker metropolis’ comment and blamed the earlier governments of BJP and its ally JD(S) for the present water disaster in Bengaluru.
He even reminded Modi that former Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and a few of his cupboard colleagues had been jailed attributable to denotification and land seize circumstances through the BJP rule from 2008 to 2013.
In an announcement, the CM underlined that the BJP authorities allegedly collected ‘40 per cent fee’ from contractors for executing initiatives.
Individuals nonetheless bear in mind how the BJP authorities, till only a 12 months in the past, drove buyers and company corporations away from Bengaluru attributable to BJP’s alleged 40 per cent fee demand and an absence of willingness to enhance infrastructure, Siddaramaiah claimed.
He charged that BJP’s failures reportedly prompted corporations like Foxxconn, Ola and others to go away Bengaluru.
“Mr. Narendra Modi, don’t overlook that it was your authorities that gave ‘Chombu’ when requested to approve the Mekedatu Mission, which may have offered Bengaluru with extra consuming water, and likewise denied further water from the Cauvery throughout misery conditions.” The successive Karnataka authorities had been pushing for a balancing reservoir throughout the Cauvery river at Mekedatu close to Kanakapura in Ramanagara district, which the neighbouring Tamil Nadu authorities has opposed.
“It was not the Congress occasion that turned the Tech Metropolis right into a ‘Tanker Metropolis’. We led the town to change into the Silicon Valley of India, whereas sadly the BJP and JD(S) governments have led this Tech Metropolis into dryness since 2006,” he stated.
Noting that the individuals of Karnataka are properly conscious of the occasion that exploited tankers in Bengaluru for private and financial positive aspects, Siddaramaiah stated former Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and his successors are actually conscious of this.
In a rush to profit from land grabs and a sequence of denotifications, the BJP-JD(S) coalition authorities merged 110 villages into the Bangalore Metropolitan Space with out satisfactory planning for water and sanitation, he defined.
“We additionally know what number of went to jail attributable to denotification and land seize points throughout 2008-13,” Siddaramaiah stated pointing to Yediyurappa and his cupboard colleagues spending time in jail on corruption fees.
Modi had an opportunity to approve the Mekedatu undertaking, “however sadly, you’ll not get one other probability from the individuals of Bengaluru,” he quipped.
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