Taking the Karnataka government’s recent protest in Delhi against alleged injustice by the Centre in the devolution of funds to the next level, the Legislative Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution condemning what it called the “stepmotherly attitude of the Centre which is destroying the State’s economy by causing huge financial losses by denying it the rightful share of taxes, Central funds, and drought as well as flood relief”.
The resolution was adopted by a voice vote amid vociferous dharna by the Opposition members who tore off copies of the resolution.
The resolution, which was tabled by Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H.K. Patil, said, “Karnataka has suffered a huge cumulative loss of ₹ 1,87,867 crore from 2017-18 due to unscientific GST system, cheating in its tax share by the Centre through increase in cess and surcharges, failure to provide special allocation as recommended by the 15th Finance Commission and 23% reduction in allocation to the State by the 15th Finance Commission.”
