Congress Govt. Sacrificing Karnataka's Interests To Kerala Immigrants: BJP
He alleged that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM DK Shivakumar were trying to allocate houses built for the beneficiaries in Bengaluru, to be handed over to immigrants from Kerala. The immigrants had illegally encroached upon government lands at Kogilu village in Yelhanka Assembly constituency after the structures built by them had been razed to the ground
BJP Karnataka chief BY Vijayendra accused the Congress government of sacrificing the interests of the state to appease the seniors in Delhi.
He alleged that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM DK Shivakumar were trying to allocate houses built for the beneficiaries in Bengaluru, to be handed over to immigrants from Kerala. The immigrants had illegally encroached upon government lands at Kogilu village in Yelhanka Assembly constituency after the structures built by them had been razed to the ground. The houses were built under Rajiv Gandhi Housing Corporation and were meant for the poor in Bengaluru.
The Congress leaders are being pressurized by AICC general secretary KC Venugopal in Delhi to divert the allocation of houses to Keralites but the BJP would not allow that to happen, he said.
Vijayendra told reporters here on Tuesday that Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar made a U-turn regarding the houses after demolishing the illegal encroachments by the Kerala immigrants as Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan and Venugopal opposed the act. He alleged that Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar has been hanging in the air and they are desperate to save their chairs.
Vijayendra said that the BJP Core Committee meeting has been convened in Bengaluru on January 5 in which allocation of houses, drug menace, and non-payment of Rs 5,000 crore Gruha Laxmi scheme instalments would be discussed.
Speaking about the houses, Vijayendra said that the guidelines and norms for allocation of the houses have been compromised, even when they were built with the taxpayers money in Karnataka.
In the past, Siddaramaiah had got 100 houses built for flood victims at Wayanad in Kerala and also extended a compensation of Rs 15 lakh each to elephant stampede incident in the neighbouring state. But Karnataka did not get anything from Kerala. Instead, Siddaramaiah looks at the Centre when farmers' suffer losses.
Vijayendra alleged that Maharashtra police have seized drug factories in Siddaramaiah's home town in Mysuru and Bengaluru too. Drugs are being openly sold across all villages in the state. The BJP state chief also pointed out that two instalments of Gruha Laxmi scheme, amounting to Rs 5,000 crore, have not been paid to the beneficiaries.
He alleged that the Congress government is anti-Hindu as the party leaders wanted to give station bail to transporters of cows to slaughter houses.