Chattisgarh Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Raman Singh has alleged that the Congress government led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had cancelled Karnataka’s plans for setting up a power plant in Chattisgarh.
“When B.S. Yeddyurappa was Chief Minister, he had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with us to set up a pit head thermal power production plant in Chattisgarh. We have enough reserves of coal, land and water. We were willing to provide them to Karnataka for power production. If the MoU was implemented , it would have provided enough power to Karnataka. But Karnataka could not benefit from it. As soon as he came to power, Mr. Siddaramaiah cancelled the project,” Mr. Singh said on Monday while speaking at the Nava Karnataka Nirmana Parivarthana Yatre at Shahapur in Belagavi.
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He alleged that Karnataka’s Congress government was the most corrupt in the country. “Corruption is a traditional practice among Congressmen. It is in their DNA. Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi admitted that of every ₹ 100 released from the Centre, only ₹ 15 reaches the beneficiary. It means that the rest is eaten up by the party workers,” he said. He urged the crowd to “throw out the corrupt Congress” and vote for the BJP.
He said that the Chattisgarh government had put in place a series of systems and processes that ensured an effective public distribution system. “We give them rice at ₹ one, dal at ₹ 5, and free salt. Each of the 60 lakh poor families get their quota of food on the 7th of every month. We have not had a single complaint in 14 years,” he claimed.
Union Ministers H.N. Ananth Kumar and Ramesh Jigajinagi, MPs Shobha Karandlaje, Suresh Angadi and Prabhakar Kore, MLA Umesh Katti and other leaders were present.
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