Monday’s press conference in Bengaluru saw Karnataka BJP’s R Ashok deliver a damning indictment of CM Siddaramaiah’s regime. Topping the charges: creation of an unauthorized SP-commanded unit to surveil Deputy CM and Congress heavyweight DK Shivakumar.
With Shivakumar in the CM race, this ‘invisible SIT’ allegedly resorts to phone intercepts and financial sabotage, signaling acute power struggles in Congress. Ashok laid bare the intrigue gripping the ruling party.
Guarantee schemes, once a poll cornerstone, now see Congress backpedaling by asking affluent users to relinquish subsidies—betraying Siddaramaiah’s all-encompassing pledges. Ashok contrasted this with PM Modi’s non-mandatory LPG subsidy appeals.
Manifesto flops include Rs 37,000 crore in contractor arrears. The CM’s scapegoating of ex-CM Bommai ignores his pristine post-COVID fiscal planning, per Ashok.
From stalled women-child welfare allocations to Hindu attacks, Bengaluru garbage mountains, e-khata fiascos, lawlessness, and admin bottlenecks, governance is in tatters. Debt levels have spiked to Rs 3.5 lakh crore, heading to Rs 6 lakh crore, saddling each resident with Rs 1 lakh debt.
Congress’s fractured house features street-protesting MLAs. BJP gears up for budget session showdowns, vowing to dismantle the narrative of surveillance sins, promise breaches, and debt disasters.