Coming down heavily on the Congress government over management of infrastructure and civic issues in Bengaluru, particularly the ongoing water crisis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday accused it of “turning the tech city into a tanker city” and handing it over to the “mafia.”
Addressing a poll convention of the Bharatiya Janata Party at the Palace Grounds here, he said, “Bengaluru founder Nadaprabhu Kempe Gowda had the dream of turning Bengaluru into a magnificent city. But the Congress government has spoiled everything within a short time.” The focus of the government, he alleged, has been only on corruption and not on the problems of the people of Bengaluru.
Stating that the Congress government is not making adequate investments in crucial areas, he said, “Whether it is agriculture or urban infrastructure, budgets are being cut everywhere.” He claimed that only the Central projects were being implemented at a fast pace in Karnataka. As against the metro network of only 17 km in 2014, Bengaluru city now had more than 70 km of metro network and the work on Yellow line of metro would soon be completed, he said, taking credit for the pace.
