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Kumaraswamy in poll mode at Tavarekere

Staff Reporter

‘Government has achieved more
than Congress in five years’

BANGALORE: In twenty months, the Janata Dal (Secular)-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition Government has achieved far more than what the Congress could achieve in five years, the Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy said today, after launching several development programmes worth Rs. 30 crore at Tavarekere in Magadi taluk near here.

Reacting sharply to the Congress leaders’ remarks at various forums, describing him as a “Chief Minister who breezes through villages and inaugurates programmes without implementing them”, Mr. Kumaraswamy said it was up to the people to decide whether he had delivered on all his promises. He added that the Congress, whose failure had led to its drubbing at the 2004 elections, had no right to sit in judgment on him or the JD(S).

In fact, he had inherited from the Congress a load of trouble: the three-day rain havoc was nothing but the consequence of illegal construction activity and encroachment on tank beds.

His Government was, in fact, trying to figure out how to untangle the knot of problems dogging Bangalore. Even the chronically backward areas like Tavarekere, were a problem, he said.

‘Shocking’

It was shocking that Tavarekere did not have a first grade college even now, he said. In 60 years, various Governments came and went, and could start only 150 colleges. But in 20 months, he had opened 164 colleges, and several engineering colleges, too, he said.

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