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Krishna criticises NDA government in `Vijay Dhundhubi` yatra
Bangalore, Mar 18: Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna today attacked the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance at the Centre for showing step motherly treatment to the state in providing drought relief.
Bangalore, Mar 18: Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna today attacked the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance at the Centre for showing step motherly treatment to the state in providing drought relief.
Krishna flayed the BJP central leadership for discriminating against the water-parched Karnataka, which has been reeling under third successive drought while launching the 'Vijay Dhundhubi' yatra--his electioneering for the next month's two-phase simultaneous polls to the Lok Sabha and the assembly.
The Chief Minister, in the first phase of the two-day yatra would cover Bangalore rural, Tumkur, Hassan and Chikmagalur districts.
To counter the negative fall out of three years of successive droughts in rural Karnataka, Krishna said that Bangalore had flowered into a model urban city of the country on the vanguard of the information technology revolution. As a show of unity in the Congress, Krishna who was travelling in a specially fitted bus which has an hydraulic podium that could be lifted up to enable him address meetings, was accompanied by a number of his cabinet colleagues who followed him in a separate bus.
The ministers included agriculture minister H K Patil, cooperation minister H Vishwanath and urban development minister D K Shivakumar who had till recently been sniping at each other.
Krishna talking about the aspirations of the BJP to make Karnataka the gateway for south by capturing power said, ''We will close the gates of Vidhana Soudha (state secretariat) for them''. The BJP made an attempt in 1999 and failed, this time also they would meet the same fate.
Attacking BJP president Venkaiah Naidu, who is a member of the Rajya Sabha from the state, said he did not speak even a word with regard to the state for the record in the Rajya Sabha.
Asserting that, Bangalore had got the attention of the world only because of the efforts taken by his government, Krishna said ''the city built by Kempe Gowda is being compared with Berlin, London and Tokyo as prominent cities of the world''.
Bureau Report
The Chief Minister, in the first phase of the two-day yatra would cover Bangalore rural, Tumkur, Hassan and Chikmagalur districts.
To counter the negative fall out of three years of successive droughts in rural Karnataka, Krishna said that Bangalore had flowered into a model urban city of the country on the vanguard of the information technology revolution. As a show of unity in the Congress, Krishna who was travelling in a specially fitted bus which has an hydraulic podium that could be lifted up to enable him address meetings, was accompanied by a number of his cabinet colleagues who followed him in a separate bus.
The ministers included agriculture minister H K Patil, cooperation minister H Vishwanath and urban development minister D K Shivakumar who had till recently been sniping at each other.
Krishna talking about the aspirations of the BJP to make Karnataka the gateway for south by capturing power said, ''We will close the gates of Vidhana Soudha (state secretariat) for them''. The BJP made an attempt in 1999 and failed, this time also they would meet the same fate.
Attacking BJP president Venkaiah Naidu, who is a member of the Rajya Sabha from the state, said he did not speak even a word with regard to the state for the record in the Rajya Sabha.
Asserting that, Bangalore had got the attention of the world only because of the efforts taken by his government, Krishna said ''the city built by Kempe Gowda is being compared with Berlin, London and Tokyo as prominent cities of the world''.
Bureau Report