Loan waiver promise will be fulfilled in couple of days: BS Yeddyurappa
Bengaluru, May 17: Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on Thursday said that the BJP's promise to waive farm loans of up to Rs. 1 lakh from nationalised and co-operative banks, which the party had made before elections to the people of Karnataka, would soon be fulfilled.
Addressing a press conference here, the CM said that he would present the statistics in the evening or tomorrow morning after writing the state general secretary to take action on loan waiver. Yeddyurappa assured that he would take action in this regard once the information made available to him.
Cabinet expansion after proving majority
When media asked him about cabinet expansion, Yeddyurappa replied that the state cabinet expansion would take place only after the majority gets tested in the House. "Besides, we have planned to make the cabinet expansion grandly in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit Shah, chief ministers of all the BJP ruled states; in front of lakhs of people," BSY stated.
"I have become Chief Minister for the third time. This was possible only with the support of Karnataka people; especially farmers, Dalits and the backward classes. I am grateful to them," Yeddyurappa said.
"Though the people gave support to Bharatiya Janata Party, the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular) have formed an ‘unholy' alliance to come to power despite being rejected by the people," he accused.
How do you prove majority?
When asked: How do you prove the majority, the CM said "do not talk about the vote of confidence. The case is in the Supreme Court. Wait until tomorrow."
BJP leaders and MLAs CM Udasi, Basavaraja Bommai, Hartal Halappa, Prabhu Chauhan, Siddu Savadi and SR Viswanath were present.
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11 more bodies retrieved from Arunachal accident site
Itanagar (PTI): Eleven more bodies were retrieved on Saturday from the deep gorge in Arunachal Pradesh's Anjaw district, where a mini-truck on which 22 labourers from Assam were travelling fell, an official said.
With this, 17 bodies have been recovered from the accident site, Anjaw's deputy commissioner Milo Kojin said.
He said three more bodies will be brought out on Sunday.
The operation, being conducted by a joint team of the NDRF and Army, resumed at 6 am.
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"The retrieval process was extremely difficult because of the treacherous terrain, and the gorge is very deep," Kojin said.
The operation was suspended around 4 pm due to low visibility and will be resumed on Sunday morning, he said.
"One person is still missing, and a search operation will be carried out tomorrow," he added.
The accident happened on the evening of December 8, around 40 km from Hayuliang towards Chaglagam in the district. On the evening of December 10, one survivor managed to climb out of the gorge and reach a nearby Border Roads Task Force (BRTF) labour camp, following which the authorities were alerted.
Six bodies were recovered from the gorge on Friday and handed over to their families on Saturday.
