Congress government in State has failed on all fronts: Yeddyurappa

Stating that the Congress government in Karnataka had failed on all fronts, former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Thursday asked Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to divulge information about how much investment has flown into the State and how many jobs have been created in the two years the party has been in power.

He told reporters here on Thursday, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his recent visit to China, got 21 Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) signed, attracting investment to the tune of $22 billion.

“The Prime Minister had invited Mr. Siddaramaiah too to be part of his team to visit China, which the latter rejected citing some lame excuses. I demand Mr. Siddaramaiah to inform the public how much of investments he has been able to attract and how many jobs created during the last two years,” he said.

‘Only assurances’

The Congress government was busy giving assurances without implementing them. In the 2014-15 budget, the State government announced the gram vikas yojana. So far, not a single village had been identified for the implementation of the scheme, forget developing it.

Similarly, the Chief Minister Grameen Sadak Yojana had not been implemented, he said. Referring to the Anna Bhagya scheme, Mr. Yeddyurappa said, it was highly reliant on food grains provided by the Union government at subsidised rates. The Chief Minister should tell the public, what was the share of the Union government in the quantity of food grains distributed in the State.

To a question on the recent trend of alleged auctioning of seats for gram panchayat elections, Mr. Yeddyurappa described such activities as undemocratic. “People should elect their representatives, considering their personality and commitment for development of rural areas. Selection of public representatives through auction is against the basic principles of democracy,” he said.