Bengaluru: Taking umbrage to comments in a section of the media that crop loan waiver would benefit only farmers belonging to Vokkaliga community, JD(S) patriarch H.D. Deve Gowda said such calculations were illogical and that Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy would reply in the Legislative Assembly soon.
“I am not bothered about such allegations. I understand the motive behind it. I did not know which intelligent person calculated the loan waiver scheme will benefit 34 per cent of Vokkaliga farmers,” he told the media.
Mr Gowda said Vokkaliga population was concentrated in four to five districts in old Mysuru region. Do Vokkaligas reside in Bidar or Mangalore?. The budget was yet to be debated in the Assembly and Mr Kumaraswamy would clarify during his reply in both Houses of legislature.
Not agreeing with some Congress leaders that north Karnataka had got a raw deal in the budget, Mr Deve Gowda said the previous government headed by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had already announced a number of schemes in his budget and the same would be continued by the coalition government.
When his attention was drawn to letters written by some Congress leaders regarding injustice meted out to north Karnataka region, Mr Gowda said the Chief Minister would reply.
