Praising All-India Congress Committee president M. Mallikarjun Kharge for his persistent efforts to get special status to Kalyana Karnataka, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar said: “Mr. Kharge gifted the special provision under Article 371(J) to the Kalyana Karnataka region 10 years ago and again today the State government had lit the lamp to empower the families through the Gruha Jyothi programme.”
He was addressing a gathering at the launch of the Gruha Jyothi scheme in Kalaburagi on Saturday.
Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP leaders for criticising the five guarantee schemes of the Congress government and for alleging that the schemes will make the State financially bankrupt if implemented, Mr. Shivakumar said that the Union government had written off lakhs of crores of bank loans of big industrialists. “Won’t that hit the India’s economy or cause bankruptcy?”
