The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday alleged that the Congress government is “directionless” and should have toned up its administration instead of expanding the Cabinet by inducting legislators facing charges of corruption.
Addressing presspersons here, the former Chief Minister and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council D.V. Sadananda Gowda said the government has not been able to take a clear stance on issues such as admission of students to professional courses and the proposal to ban arecanut. Instead of providing a clean and transparent administration, the Ministers are busy renovating their office chambers in the Secretariat. Neither Chief Minister Siddaramaiah nor his Cabinet are paying attention to implementing measures to tackle drought.
Even though the size of the budget crossed more than Rs. 1 lakh crore, the government has not been able to pay salaries to teachers of both aided and un-aided educational institutions. The people will teach a lesson to the Congress government in the coming Lok Sabha elections, he predicted.
The government has resorted to power cuts despite good storage levels in the reservoirs, he added. It has become more frequent and it is more than six to seven hours in villages. They have no plan to tackle shortage of power in the State. The economic growth will decline if the government fails to arrest the power shortage in the days ahead, Mr. Sadananda Gowda said.
He pointed out that there was no clarity on the proposal to ban arecanut cultivation in the State by the Centre. The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has written to the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India to examine the scientific evidence on the harmful effects of arecanut. Though several institutes in Tamil Nadu and Kerala have researched on the benefits of arecanut, the Centre was mulling over banning the cultivation of the crop. More than five lakh families are dependent on arecanut for their livelihood, he said.
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