Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress President Mallikarjun Haq
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a jibe at Congress chief Mallikarjun Haq’s statement. The Prime Minister said the Congress party is well aware that it is easy to make false promises but difficult or impossible to deliver them correctly. In Karnataka, Haq said announcements can only be made as per the budget, otherwise the state will go bankrupt.
Now, the Prime Minister has ridiculed Haqq’s statement, saying the Congress party knows all too well that it is easy to make false promises but difficult or impossible to deliver them properly. In campaign after campaign, they made promises to the people that even they knew they could never keep. Now, they have been horribly exposed in front of people.
What’s going on?
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday slammed the Karnataka deputy minister’s statement that the state government will review the ‘Shakti’ assurance. As per this assurance by the state Congress government, women can avail the facility of free bus travel. Shivakumar on Wednesday said the government will reconsider the Shakti scheme as some women expressed their willingness to pay to travel in government buses. Haq later took a jibe at the deputy first minister at a press conference.
Haq says-BJP has a chance
He said sarcastically, you have given some assurances. After seeing them, I also said in Maharashtra that Karnataka has five guarantees. Now you (Shivkumar) say you will leave the guarantee. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Shivkumar, who was sitting next to him, laughed and expressed their disagreement with Kharge’s statement. Siddaramaiah said the deputy chief minister had only said that the government would review it. Harg said whatever you (Shivkumar) said gave them (BJP) a chance.
The Bharatiya Janata Party also launched an attack
Congress Party’s Statement of Assurance and Haq Quoting Haq, former Union minister and senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Congress party admitted for the first time that its election announcement was aimed at bringing shame on the public. Prasad said the Congress party, through its president, had admitted for the first time that its election guarantee was just a matter of dusting in the public eye.
