CM Siddaramaiah thanks voters of Varuna constituency, says ‘evil politics’ defeated

MYSURU: Expressing gratitude to the party workers and voters in his constituency Varuna, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that the people of the state defeated evil politics by voting for the Congress and made a historic decision.

The Chief Minister said, “The people of Karnataka have defeated the evil politics of corruption, mismanagement, underdevelopment and breaking the society and made a historic decision”. He was addressing a massive meeting held in the Varuna Assembly constituency on Saturday to express his gratitude to party workers and voters over the massive win in the recent Karnataka Assembly elections.

Siddaramaiah said that it was his last election, but he will continue being in active politics. “This is my last election. But I will continue to serve the people by being active in politics until my last breath. In 2013, when I was the Chief Minister, I formulated a welfare programme for all castes, religions and all sections of society. This time our government will give more effective welfare programmes to the people of the state”, he said.

He claimed that the Prime Minister had said the guarantees promised by the Congress party would not be enforced and the state will be bankrupt “The Chief Minister’s seat is not a happy place. It is also an opportunity to improve people’s lives. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had criticised that Congress guarantees will not be enforced and the state will be bankrupt. We are now implementing all five”, he added.

“When Congress announced the pro-poor and middle-class scheme, Prime Minister Modi should have supported our schemes. But Modi does not want the progress and development of the poor and middle-class people. Hence, BJP is creating confusion among the people by spreading lies”, he added. The CM said they have implemented guarantee schemes which BJP never tries to do.

Responding to the shout-outs by farmers in the meeting to ‘Reduce the increasing fertilizer prices’, the Chief Minister said, “Prime Minister Modi’s government has raised the price of fertilizers, and it is Modi’s government that needs to reduce the prices. But they will not reduce the price. We will also win the 2024 Lok Sabha elections then we will reduce the prices of petrol, diesel, cooking oil and fertilizers when we come to power at the Centre”.

Former MLA Yatindra, Social Welfare Minister H C Mahadevappa, Animal Husbandry Minister K Venkatesh, Deputy Speaker-designate Puttaranga Shetty, MLA A R Krishnamurthy, KPCC spokesperson Lakshman, MLC Thimmaiah, former Lok Sabha member Shivanna, MLAs Gundlupet Ganesh Prasad, Anil Chikkamadu, Ravi Shankar, Harish Gowda, Nagaraj Yadav and others were present at the meeting. (ANI)