Former Congress Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar on Thursday said the Congress government led by Siddaramaiah “did not act sufficiently fast” in implementing the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act, “though the Act enacted by the State is arguably the best in the country.”
The new Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act was formulated based on the recommendations of the committee headed by Congress MLA K R Ramesh Kumar during the previous Congress government.
“In my view, unfortunately, the Congress government did not act sufficiently fast for implementing the law, and naturally the non-Congress government that came in did not show the same sense of ownership of recommendations of the Ramesh Kumar Committee. With the result the law significantly remained unattended,” Mr Aiyar said.
