The BJP government in Karnataka has spent about Rs 300 crore taxpayers money in showcasing its achievements in the last few months, former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy charged today.
“While the BJP government spent Rs 100 crore before the polls were announced on advertisements, the expenditure incurred after poll dates were announced is about Rs 200 crore”, Kumaraswamy, state unit JD(S) president, alleged at a meet-the-press programme here.
The B S Yeddyurappa government is claiming credit for all the development programmes he initiated as chief minister while heading the JDS-BJP coalition government, he said. “Be it Bhagya-lakshmi insurance scheme for girls, Sandhya Suraka-sha, a pension programme for aged, distribution of bicycles to school students, waiver of crop loans or extending farm credit at three per cent interest rate are all my government programmes and not BJP’s”, he said.
Accusing BJP of engineering defections from other parties, he said “BJP is on a fast track after forming the government. Barring directing its attention to development activities, it has been doing everything including luring MLAs and Gram Panchayat members”, he said. There was rampant misuse of official machinery and officials were being used to ferry cash for distribution in election, he charged.
“It is yet another false promise by BJP”, he said, ridiculing the assurance by the saffron party’s senior leader L K Advani that his party would bring back black money stashed away in Swiss banks.