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HD Deve Gowda: Who wants Digital India?

Centre's schemes not aimed at solving farmers' problems: Ex-PM.

Bengaluru: Ridiculing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plans for a "Digital India," when the country's farmers were in distress, Janata Dal (S) supremo, H D Deve Gowda deplored that none of the Union government's schemes were aimed at addressing their problems.

"As the son of a farmer I see that Mr Modi's schemes are not farmer oriented," he regretted, speaking to reporters here on Tuesday.

Lashing out at the Prime Minister, he said, "Who wants a Digital India when in the absence of rainfall, farmers are killing themselves? At a time like this those in power need to take the responsibility of protecting the farmers.

When their condition is so pathetic and their suicides are heard of so regularly, it is not right of Mr Modi to dream about a Digital India."

Taking on the Centre on the issue of corruption, Mr Gowda added, " Modi says he wants to offer a corruption- free administration. Does that mean that the tenures of former Prime Ministers like Jawaharlal Nehru and Atal Behari Vajpayee were corrupt ?"

Saying he was open to investigation of any wrong doings during his term as Prime Minister, he said, "I have been a Chief Minister, Prime Minister and a Lok Sabha member. Let there be an inquiry against me as well."

Demanding that the CBI investigate the execution of the Mysuru-Benagluru expressway project by the Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises (NICE) , he said only this could ferret out the irregularities in its implementation.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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