Bengaluru, May 4: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that first BJP leaders should appeal Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fulfill the assurance of crediting Rs 15 lakh to the bank accounts of each citizen.

Responding to the BJP’s proposal of waiving of Rs 1 lakh crop loan of farmers in its manifesto in the Twitter, Siddaramaiah said that farmers would not require the promise of waiving Rs 1 lakh crop loan. Instead, let the BJP leaders apprise Modi to fulfill the old promise of crediting Rs 15 lakh into bank accounts. When Yeddyurappa was asked to waive of farmers loan during BJP government, the latter said that he did not have note printing machine. Does Yeddyurappa get the note printing machine now, Siddaramaiah asked.

In its manifesto, BJP has promised of waiving of crop loan up to Rs 1 lakh, 10 hour three-phase power for farmers pump sets every day, Reintroducing Karnataka Ban on Cow Slaughter and Protection Act 2012 and others. 

 

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Cooch Behar (WB) (PTI): Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday alleged the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre was using the proposed amendment to the women's quota law in Parliament as a front for the Delimitation Bill that would "break the country into pieces".

The TMC will fight this Central government's move at every step, she asserted at her party's poll rally here.

The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill to tweak the women's quota law, along with the Delimitation Bill and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, to implement the proposed amended women's quota law, in the Union territories of Delhi, Puducherry and Jammu and Kashmir, were introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.

According to the Constitution amendment bill, Lok Sabha seats will be increased to a maximum of 850 from the current 543 to "operationalise" the women's reservation law before the 2029 parliamentary polls, following a delimitation exercise based on the 2011 Census.

Seats will also be increased in state and Union territory assemblies to accommodate 33 per cent reservation for women.

Opposing the Centre's move, Banerjee alleged that "the BJP brought the Delimitation Bill while keeping the women's reservation bill at the front".

"The BJP is trying to increase the number of seats in the Lok Sabha to nearly 850 through the Delimitation Bill. It will break the country into pieces," the TMC supremo said.

She also alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not speaking the truth about the development of north Bengal at a BJP rally last week.

"The prime minister said nothing was done for the development of north Bengal. But we spent Rs 1.72 lakh crore on the development of the region," Banerjee said and asked Modi to cross-check data before making such remarks.