From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network
Bengaluru, Aug 1: Former BJP chief minister Basavaraj Bommai has urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah not to cut any allocations for implementing the Congress party’s 5 Guarantees, estimated to cost Rs 50,000 crore, while ensuring that the people are not burdened with additional taxes to fund them.
In a detailed letter to the chief minister, copies of which have also been released to the media, Bommai reminded that the State's priority sectors of education, health, women's development, and infrastructure development should not suffer, and the interests of farmers, Dalits, neglected sections, as well as backward classes, must be protected.
Bommai has urged the Congress government to ensure that the limit of short-term loans to farmers, which has been enhanced from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 5 lakh, must not be reduced. Additionally, the allocation of Rs 1,500 crore for the revolving fund to meet the requirements of the minimum support price for agricultural produce should not be cut. The construction of classrooms, as well as the allocations for different scholarships to the children of farmers, fishermen, working class, weavers, and other categories, must be continued, along with the allocations to various development programs.
The government must implement all the Centrally sponsored schemes, besides infrastructure projects, he said.
The BJP leader has demanded that the chief minister provide detailed financial allocations and a clearer picture of how the guarantees will be funded.