JOIN USYeddyurappa accuses HDK of 'divide and rule' policy
Karnataka BJP President B S Yeddyurappa charged that Chief Minister Kumaraswamy is adopting divide and rule policy to govern Karnataka. Speaking to media persons at Hubballi Airport en route to Belagavi on Tuesday, he said none of the previous chief ministers had indulged in such kind of discrimination as Kumaraswamy. This is the reason why there has been a greater demand for separate statehood now.
BJP is not in favour of the separate state, he said and added that demand for separate State is not the solution for the problems faced by the people of North Karnataka. Several people have sacrificed their lives for the unification of Karnataka and all our efforts should be to make sure that Karnataka is united.
Yeddyurappa also asked chief minister not make light comments against media to hide his failures. “Media is not ‘adding fire’ to the demands of separate State, but his (CM’s) provocative statements are,” he said and added that Kumaraswamy cannot make such provoking statements without the backing of JD(S) Supremo H D Deve Gowda. "What does Deve Gowda’s silence against Kumaraswamy’s statements means,” he asked.
He said, as a chief minister it was Kumaraswamy’s duty to meet the protesting seers at Suvarana Vidhan Soudha, who are alleging step-motherly treatment from the State government. “Instead, I am going to Belagavi to pacify them and request them to take back their protest and demand for separate State,” he said.
NK too contributes
Yeddyurappa said, Bengaluru is the not only revenue generating place in Karnataka and it is Kalaburagi, Raichur, Koppal, Ballari that has been providing food grains and Kaiga, RTPS and YTPS that is providing power to entire State.
The former chief minister claimed that he would soon release documents related to his contribution towards the development of North Karnataka.
Training his gun on former chief minister Siddaramaih, Yeddyurappa said the previous Congress government did not release the assured Rs 50,000 crore for irrigation projects in the region. Only Rs 8,500 crore was released over five years, he said.
The State government is planning to redesign the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam, while neglecting the Almatti reservoir, for which the court has given green signal to increase the height of the reservoir to 524. 25 meters.
The previous government had also failed to fill 45,000 vacant group C and D employees under the provisions of Article 371(J), he said.