The 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka are voting in two phases in this election, with the polling due on April 26 and May 7. All Bengaluru seats will go to polls on April 26.
Bengaluru:
Weeks after Bengaluru made national headlines for a crippling water crisis, with visuals of people queuing up near tankers flashing on TV screens, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a scathing attack on the ruling Congress in Karnataka, saying the party turned “tech city into a tanker city”. Hitting back, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has asked where the Prime Minister was when Karnataka suffered due to floods and droughts.
“PM Narendra Modi says, will make the country a green energy hub, pharma hub, electronics hub, electrical vehicle hub, semiconductor hub, and a global innovation hub so that India becomes a hub of Global economy. But the people of Congress and the INDI alliance say they will remove Modi,” he said.
“It is Modi’s guarantee that after 5G, we will now launch 6G, they say they will remove Modi. It is Modi’s guarantee that we will bring AI, but they say they will remove Modi. It is Modi’s guarantee that after Chandrayaan, we will now make India proud of Gaganyaan, they say, they will remove Modi. Congress is anti-youth because it is anti-investment, it is anti-entrepreneurship, it is anti-private sector, it is anti-taxpayer, it is anti-wealth creator,” he added.
The kind of thoughts and ideology being promoted by Congress government in Karnataka is very dangerous. Our daughters are being attacked, bombs are exploding in markets, and people are being attacked for listening to religious songs, these incidents are not common. I urge my brothers and sisters to stay very alert of the Congress,” he added. The statements come in the wake of the murder of a Congress leader’s 21-year-old daughter in Hubbali, and a blast in Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe and the thrashing of three youngsters, allegedly for raising “Jai Shri Ram” slogans.
I guarantee that your dreams are my resolve. My life is dedicated to you and the country. I promise 24X7 for 2047,” he said, referring to the goal of making India a developed country by 2047.
In a sharp response, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah posted on X, “Claims of working 24×7 for the people, yet where was he during Karnataka’s floods and droughts? So, what’s the real story behind this ’24×7′? Sounds like it’s all PR, all the time!”
The Chief Minister also hit back at the Prime Minister’s remarks in Karnataka’s Chikkaballapur, where he said Karnataka is the biggest example of how the Congress “deceives” the farmers.
“We started the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme for small and marginal farmers. When Karnataka had a BJP government, the farmers of the state received ₹ 10000 each, ₹ 6,000 from the central government and ₹ 4000 from Karnataka’s BJP government. But as soon as Congress formed government in the state, it stopped giving ₹ 4000 to the farmers,” the Prime Minister said.
