Bangalore:

Weeks after Bengaluru made national headlines over its severe water crisis, with TV screens flashing images of people queuing near oil tankers, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a campaign against Karnataka’s ruling Congress party A scathing attack, saying the party had turned “Tech City into a city”. Tanker City.” Chief Minister Siddaramaiah hit back, asking where the Prime Minister was when Karnataka was hit by floods and drought.

Polling for 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka will be held in two phases in this election, with voting taking place on April 26 and May 7. All seats in Bengaluru will go to polls on April 26.

At a rally in the city days before the vote, the prime minister said he wanted to lead the country forward and accused Congress of being “anti-investment, anti-entrepreneurship, anti-private sector, anti-taxpayer, anti-wealth creators.”

“Modi said that he will make India a green energy hub, a pharmaceutical hub, an electronics hub, an electric vehicle hub, a semiconductor hub and a global innovation hub to make India the hub of the global economy. But the people of Congress and the INDI alliance said they will remove Modi Dee,” he said.

“Modi assured that after 5G, we will now launch 6G, they said they will take down Modi. Modi assured that we will bring artificial intelligence, but they said they will take down Modi. Modi assured that after Chandrayaan, We will remove Modi. “Now let India be proud of Gaganyan, they say they will remove Modi because Congress is anti-youth, because it is anti-investment, it is anti-entrepreneurship, it is anti-private sector. , is anti-taxpayer, is the opposite. Wealth creator,” he added.

The Prime Minister said that the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Janata Party came together to realize the dreams of the people of Karnataka.

“I promise you that your dream is my determination. My life is dedicated to you and the country. I am committed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to 2047,” he said, referring to the goal of making India a developed country by 2047 .

“Congress has turned tech city into a tanker city. Budgets have been cut from agriculture to urban infrastructure. Congress is only focusing on corruption and not on the problems of Bengaluru. Only central government projects are being fast-tracked,” he said.

“Such ideas and ideologies promoted by the Congress government in Karnataka are very dangerous. Incidents such as our daughters being attacked, bombs exploding in markets and people being attacked for listening to religious songs are not common. I urge my brothers and sisters to be extremely vigilant about Congress,” he added. The statements come in the wake of the murder of a Congress leader’s 21-year-old daughter in Hubballi, the blast at a Rameshwaram cafe in Bengaluru and the beating of three youths, allegedly for raising “Jai Shri Ram” slogans. Published later.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah gave a scathing response on What’s the real story behind it? It sounds like it’s all PR, it’s all PR. “

Claims to serve people 24×7, but where was he during floods and droughts in Karnataka?

So, what’s the real story behind “24×7”?

Sounds like it was PR all along!#Modis24x7

— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) April 20, 2024

The chief minister also hit back at the Prime Minister’s remarks in Karnataka’s Jikabalapur, where he said Karnataka was the biggest example of the Congress party “cheating” farmers.

“We launched the Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi Scheme for small and marginal farmers. When there was a BJP government in Karnataka, farmers in the state got Rs 10,000 each, of which the central government provided Rs 6,000, Karnataka BJP government to provide Rs 4,000 to farmers after Congress formed government in the state,” the Prime Minister said.

The Chief Minister replied that the Prime Minister must ask himself whether he is truly a good Samaritan for farmers. Talking about the farmers’ movement on Delhi borders in 2020-21, he asked about around 700 farmers who died during the protests and questioned the prime minister’s moral stance in talking about farmers.

He said the Center was not ready to meet farmers’ demands for a law to ensure minimum support price and impose GST on seeds and fertilizers.

He said the BJP has been anti-farmer from the beginning. “This is the party of capitalists, businessmen and traders. The anti-farmer poison is in the DNA of this party,” he said, questioning what the Narendra Modi government has done to farmers in Karnataka during its decade-long rule. What.

He said farmers in Karnataka are smart enough to know who their well-wishers are and will teach the “anti-farmer” forces a lesson in the elections.