BJP dubs Karnataka govt.’s Sadhana Samavesha ‘a celebration of non- performance’

Ahead of the State government’s ‘Sadhana Samavesha’ to be held in Mysuru on Saturday, the BJP in the city dubbed it as a “celebration of non-performance”.

Addressing the media here on Thursday, senior functionaries of the city BJP said that the event was laughable, as there was nothing to celebrate. Party functionaries M.A. Mohan and ex-MLA L. Nagendra said that there was an “administrative collapse” in the State and that the law and order situation had deteriorated.

“While there was an increase in crimes of various nature across the State, the police does not have a free hand to investigate and crackdown on the culprits due to the interference of the Congress leaders,” Mr. Mohan alleged. “The only achievement of this government led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is that it has survived for two years,” he added.

The BJP leaders said that the Congress was content with just talking about the five guarantee schemes, but claimed that its benefits were questionable. “While women have been given free rides under the Shakti scheme, the government has raised fuel charges, thus cross-subsidising the scheme with public money,” said Mr. Mohan.

BJP leaders also criticised the State government for its “inability” to make timely payment to the beneficiaries. “This is a government which does not have funds to pay salaries to the government staff on time, and hence it is too much to expect timely disbursement of money under the scheme,” they added.

The government’s tenure has been marked by lack of any development works and this is due to the fact that none of the licensed contractors were keen to take up government works as their collective arrears was in excess of ₹33,000 crore, according to the BJP, which reiterated their earlier stand that the ‘Sadhana Samavesha’ was nothing more than a show of strength.

Schemes like the ‘Yuva Nidhi’ were criticised as being available only on paper by the BJP leaders, who said that in contrast, certain Central government programmes like the ‘Mudra Yojana’ offered real financial support to the youth.

“Narendra Modi is working to make people self-reliant, while this government is busy with publicity shows to hide its failures,” the BJP functionaries said.