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Call special session of legislature to discuss drought: BJP
'Removal of Lokayukta can be taken up some other time'
The State BJP on Sunday demanded that the government immediately convene a special session of the State legislature to discuss the prevailing drought situation in Karnataka and the difficulties being faced by farmers.
Addressing a press conference in Bengaluru, BJP State president Pralhad Joshi and national vice president B S Yeddyurappa blamed the government for failing to come to the rescue of the people in general and farmers in particular reeling under misery due to drought.
Joshi said the special session should be exclusively utilised to discuss the drought situation in the State. Other issues, including taking up a motion to remove Lokayukta Y Bhaskar Rao from office, could be taken up some other time.
He said the government should waive the farmers’ loans and interest immediately and take steps to improve the power situation.
He said the party’s Raitha Chaitanya Yatre, a tour of rural areas taken up by the BJP leaders to instil confidence in farmers, had received tremendous response. BJP national president Amit Shah will be participating in the last leg of the first phase of the rally scheduled to be held in Mysuru on September 13.
Yeddyurappa demanded that the government come out with a white paper on the State finances. He accused Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of being only concerned with grabbing power in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Council.
The chief minister or his Cabinet colleagues had not visited the districts to study the drought situation, he said. The State finances are in a shambles. Of the Rs 2,560 crore earmarked for the Agriculture Department in 2014-15, only Rs 658 crore have been spent. Of the Rs 11,515 crore set aside for the Water Resources Department for the same fiscal, only Rs 414 crore has been utilised, he said.
Earlier in the day, the BJP core committee met and decided to intensify its agitation against the ruling Congress. The party will hold conventions in all the districts to expose the “failures” of the government, Joshi said.
Addressing a press conference in Bengaluru, BJP State president Pralhad Joshi and national vice president B S Yeddyurappa blamed the government for failing to come to the rescue of the people in general and farmers in particular reeling under misery due to drought.
Joshi said the special session should be exclusively utilised to discuss the drought situation in the State. Other issues, including taking up a motion to remove Lokayukta Y Bhaskar Rao from office, could be taken up some other time.
He said the government should waive the farmers’ loans and interest immediately and take steps to improve the power situation.
He said the party’s Raitha Chaitanya Yatre, a tour of rural areas taken up by the BJP leaders to instil confidence in farmers, had received tremendous response. BJP national president Amit Shah will be participating in the last leg of the first phase of the rally scheduled to be held in Mysuru on September 13.
Yeddyurappa demanded that the government come out with a white paper on the State finances. He accused Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of being only concerned with grabbing power in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Council.
The chief minister or his Cabinet colleagues had not visited the districts to study the drought situation, he said. The State finances are in a shambles. Of the Rs 2,560 crore earmarked for the Agriculture Department in 2014-15, only Rs 658 crore have been spent. Of the Rs 11,515 crore set aside for the Water Resources Department for the same fiscal, only Rs 414 crore has been utilised, he said.
Earlier in the day, the BJP core committee met and decided to intensify its agitation against the ruling Congress. The party will hold conventions in all the districts to expose the “failures” of the government, Joshi said.
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(Published 06 September 2015, 19:57 IST)
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