Chief Minister Siddaramaiah took serious exception to the BJP’s recent campaign to claim credit for Anna Bhagya scheme. “If it was the BJP’s programme, why it is not being implemented in BJP ruled states – Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat,” he sought to know.
Addressing the Janashirvada rally here on Wednesday, he said the Manmohan Singh-led government at the Centre brought in the Food Security Act. “We have been providing 7 kg of rice to four crore people of the State. No other State has a scheme of this magnitude,” he said.
Accusing the BJP of being anti-poor and anti-minority, Mr. Siddaramaiah said nobody could do politics on communal issues for long. “The BJP tries to divide people by raking up issues like Bababudangiri-Datta Peetha. They do politics over the dead,” he accused.
The CM said his government had proposed a Karnataka-model of development and it had fulfilled promises it made during the elections. “We had given 165 assurances and of them, 158 have been fulfilled. We have practised what we preached,” he added.
