Siddaramaiah government is most corrupt, anti-farmer, says Prakash Javadekar

Bengaluru: Calling the Siddaramaiah government “ most corrupt, anti -people and anti-farmer" Union Minister for Human Resource Development (HRD), Prakash Javadekar on Saturday claimed its decision to waive off farmers’ loans was nothing but an eyewash.

Addressing a special meeting of MPs, MLAs, MLCs and other leaders here, he pointed out that only Rs. 8000 crore in crop loan had been waived off , unlike the time when the BJP government in the state had waived off both crop loans given to farmers by co-operative societies and nationalised banks.

Recaling that BJP national president, Amit Shah, wanted the party to win over 150 seats in the 2018 Assembly elections in the state, he said its aim was to reach every booth in Karnataka and connect with the people. Mr Javadekar urged party leaders and workers to highlight the performance of Modi government.

Asserting that the BJP was committed to giving Constitutional status to the Backward Classes Commission, he regretted that the Congress had blocked the amendment Bill in the Rajya Sabha.

State BJP president B.S. Yeddyurappa, in his speech, said the party planned to hold a Navakarnataka Nirmana Yatra on November 1, and advised both present and former MLAs to take responsibility for organiaing similar rallies in their districts in the run-up to the assembly elections. He revealed that the party would soon release a chargesheet against the Congress government in the state.

Railway minister Piyush Goyal, Union Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda, and senior BJP leader in-charge of Karnataka affairs, Muralidhar Rao were present.