MLC and KPCC working president Saleem Ahmed has alleged that after having lost the Assembly elections in Karnataka, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had indulged in vengeance politics and meting out injustice to the State through the Centre.
Addressing a press conference in Hubballi on Saturday, Mr. Ahmed accused the Union government of delaying the free 10 kg rice scheme of the State government. “Providing 10 kg of rice every month is one among the guarantee schemes of the State government. But the BJP-led Union government is playing vengeance politics. Initially it said it will supply rice and all of a sudden changed its stance and communicated that it will not supply rice. The people of the State will teach a lesson to the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections,” he said.
“Former Union Minister and seven-time MP K.H. Muniyappa is the present Minister for Food and Civil Supplies and he was made to wait for three days to meet the Union Minister. After he was finally allowed to meet him, the Union Minister categorically rejected the State’s request. It is nothing but a deliberate move,” he said.
