Centre should give stimulus package to states:Yeddy

Karanataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has asked the UPA government to work out a stimulus package for states to tide over the economic crisis caused by global downturn and sought other states' support for his demand.
"As the Centre announced two stimulus packages to insultate the economy from economic recession, there is an urgent need to come with a similar package to bail out the state governments out of this crisis", he told PTI in an interview on the occasion of his government completing its first year in office today.
The Finance department officials have been working out details of the impact caused by the global meltdown and the extent of financial losses to quantify the aid the state should seek from the Centre, he said. Yeddyurappa, looking relaxed after his party's good performance in Lok Sabha polls in the state with 19 of the 28 seats in the state, wanted all Chief Ministers to join him in demanding a financial package to states.
"All Chief Ministers, be it ruled by Congress, BJP and allies of UPA, they should come together to put forth this demand before the Centre," he said. "I expect the Centre to come to my state's help", said Yeddyurappa, who has been repeatedly accusing the UPA government of giving Karnataka a raw deal earlier on the ground that it was ruled by BJP.