The Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal (Secular) in Karnataka want the Congress government’s guarantee schemes in the State abolished, alleged All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala.
Addressing a press conference in Mandya on Sunday, Mr. Surjewala said JD(S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy and BJP State president B.Y. Vijayendra want the benefits of the State government amounting to ₹58,000 crore every year that percolate to the people of the State to be stopped.
Claiming that nearly 3 crore households in Karnataka were getting a benefit of about ₹1.2 lakh every year in the form of the Gruha Lakshmi, Gruha Jyothi, Anna Bhagya, Shakti and Yuva Nidhi guarantee schemes of the State government, the Congress leader asked Mr. Kumaraswamy and Mr. Vijayendra why they wanted the guarantee schemes in Karnataka to be stopped.
