Never seen a PM who speaks 'lies': Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah targets Modi

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday hit out at the Narendra Modiled central government and claimed that in his 40 years of political career he has never seen a prime minister who speaks liesAddressing a rally in Kannada in Sangli district of Maharashtra where the state Congress felicitated him for the partys win in the recent Karnataka Assembly polls the CM accused the BJP of indulging in corruption in his stateHe said it was the responsibility of every Congress worker to defeat the Narendra Modi government and save the Constitution and democracyNever in my 40year political life have I seen a prime minister who speaks lies In 2014 he Modi spoke of depositing Rs 15 lakh into the bank accounts of people two crore jobs and bringing acche din good days Did anything of this sort happen the Congress leader asked targeting ModiSiddaramaiah said he and his deputy D K Shivakumar who is the Karnataka Congress president visited every nook and corner of their state to explain to the people about the previous state BJP governments corruption where 40 per cent commission was allegedly taken for various worksBJP means corruption and corruption means BJP he allegedThe CM claimed the BJP had won in Karnataka previously not by peoples mandate but operation Kamala which meant luring MLAs with moneyI am sure the Eknath ShindeDevendra Fadnavis government in Maharashtra is also corrupt and it is the job of the all Congress workers to defeat them he saidThe Assembly elections in Maharashtra are due next yearAll of us have to wage another freedom struggle to save the country Constitution and democracy It is because of Ambedkar that I am the chief minister he saidHe further accused the BJP of dividing people on the basis of religion region caste and languageSiddharamaiah also accused the Centre of asking the Food Corporation of India FCI not to provide rice to his government for a scheme which is one of the five guarantees that was supposed to start immediately after the Congress came to power in KarnatakaIn the first cabinet meeting we decided to implement the five guarantees we gave in our manifesto one of which is providing 10 kg rice free to the poor peopleThe central governments move is to ensure we dont work on this he allegedThe BJP can stoop to this level for politics We were to purchase rice from the FCI and not take it for free We want to provide the rice purchased at a given price free of cost to the poor he said while terming the BJP as worthlessSiddaramaiah said before the Karnataka Assembly polls PM Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah camped in the state for several days to defeat the Congress But the people defeated them he saidThe BJP lost in constituencies where the PM campaigned This means Modis popularity in waning he claimedThe Karnataka CM further claimed that late RSS leader MS Golwalkar and Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar had opposed the ConstitutionThe Congress will never allow the Constitution to be changed and all party workers should be prepared for any sacrifice to protect it he saidSocial equality and social justice have been enshrined in the Constitution and democracy is thriving in the country he addedIn the rally banners in Kannada language were put up with messages demanding water from Karnatakas Tubachi Babaleshwar irrigation project and 10 per cent quota to Marathi people in the boundary areasMaharashtra Congress MLA Vishwajit Kadam who welcomed Siddaramaiah demanded that the Karnataka government look into the water issues of Jat taluka in Sangli which borders the southern state and to also ensure that Marathispeaking people of Belgaum do not feel discriminatedThe Karnataka CM also said he would look into the water issues in Jat taluka of Sangli and ensure the people get waterThe border dispute between Maharashtra and Karnataka dates back to the 1960s after the reorganisation of states on linguistic linesMaharashtra has laid claim to Belgaum which was part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency as it has a sizable Marathispeaking population It has also laid claim to a number of Marathispeaking villages which are currently part of KarnatakaOn the occasion senior Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat expressed confidence that just like Karnataka Maharashtra will also have a Congress government after the next Assembly pollsHe also demanded that the Karnataka government consider Marathispeaking people their own even as the Supreme Court verdict on the boundary dispute was pendingThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever