Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
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It is wrong to question injustice to the people’s tax share: CM Questions.
*It is common for Prime Minister Modi to lie.BJP members too are continuing to lie: Congress members fume.
The Chief Minister said that a Country is secure only if the states are secure.He reiterated that the Centre should not weaken the states.
He was replying to the debate on the Governor’s speech in the Legislative Council.
Our constitution has designed that we will have a federal system.The whole country has accepted this. But the federal system should not be destroyed. Narendra Modi says ‘cooperative federalism’.
But the same is not seen in him or in the Union Government’s behaviour.The CM pointed out the the injustice that has been happening continuously from the centre to the state for the last 10 years by presenting the numbers.
The tax is contributed from the state to the centre.Rs. 4.30 lakh crore tax is contributed from the state.An amount of Rs.37252 crores for 2023-24 is allocated from tax devolution.
Rs.13005 crores is allocated to central sponsored schemes which amounts to only Rs.50257 crore.As the budget size of the centre increases,the share of the state should also increase accordingly.
However,even as the budget size of the centre is increasing, the share of taxes and grants due to the Kannadigas is decreasing.
It is our duty to protect the Kannadigas.If the state is strong,the centre will be strong,he said.
‘If we question the injustice being done to the state and the people of the state,Prime Minister Modi says,we talk about dividing the country’the CM said.
After mentioning the words of the Prime Minister,the BJP members loudly protested that the Prime Minister did not say that.
To this,Prakash Rathore,a member of the Congress said that it is common for the PM to lie,but the BJP members are also continuing to lie.
