Yogesh K Porwar & Siddarath Sethia
Bommai urges govt to reveal the amount available in calamity management fund and DCs account
Accusing the state government of indulging in politics at a time when the farmers are in dire straits due to the severe drought,former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai warned that any government that could fail to give justice to farmers would not last long.
Talking to reporters here on Tuesday after submitting a memorandum to the Governor Thawar Chand Gehlot seeking his direction to the state government to give the suitable compensation to farmers in the wake of severe drought,he said any government which would come to the rescue of people during drought or floods is considered as a living government or not doing anything would be deemed as a dead government.
The Congress Party had requested the Government of India to release Rs.18000 crore as drought relief but the state government had released just Rs.105 crore which was not even one per cent of the relief amount sought from central government.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah,before the Belagavi session, had promised to give a compensation of Rs. 2000 per hectare but that amount has not been released yet under the garb of linking Aadhar number of farmers.The linking of Aadhar had been done during the previous BJP regime in the Fruit Software.
“Our government had transferred the relief money to directly to the bank account of 14 lakh farmers”.
Bommai said no development work has started in the State after the Congress Party came to power and Rs. 3000 crore reserved for the Kalyana-Karnataka in the budget has not been spent.
The benefits of the Gruha Lakshmi have failed to reach women and the Gruha Jyoti and Yuva Nidhi have not benefited the people in any manner.
No guarantee scheme had been implemented effectively.Since the government has failed to release the money to farmwesy,the BJP sought direction from the governor.
Asked about the non-release of the money from the Government of India, the former CM said the Central Government would relief the NDRF funds to all the states once in three months
Disclose the availability of funds
The BJP leader wanted the government to disclose the money available in NDRF,SDRF and DCs accounts
On the CM’a economic adviser Basavaraj Rayaraddi expressing his concern over the state’s economic condition,Bommai said Rayaraddi has told the truth as he was aware how the government was facing the shortage of funds.But the CM was not ready to agree to it.
Insecurity haunts CM:
He said insecurity was haunting the CM Siddaramaiah due to which he was busy in politicking.The Deputy Chief Minister Shivakumar has been fighting for the CM post and others were busy in securing the Deputy Chief Ministers post.Everyone has forgotten the state’s development and indulged in politics.
Seeing the current financial situation,the government may impose fresh conditions to continue the guarantees after the parliamentary polls
Leader of the Opposition in the State Legislative Assembly,R.Ashok,former CM,D.V.Sadananda Gowda, former deputy chief Minister,Dr Ashwath Narayana, former minister,K.Gopaliah and MLAs,S.Raghu,Ravi Subramanya and K.Ramamurthy were present.
