No one can shake government: CM Kumaraswamy
‘Action against babus who fail to follow orders’
Mysuru, September 11: Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said that as the coalition government was stable and strong, no one could able to shake it.
Inaugurating the cultural forum of the Maharani Women’s Arts College here on Tuesday, the CM said that the news that the coalition government was shaking was the creation of media. Media have been publishing false news by listening to some people. Only he knew how strong the government was. Don’t create confusion among people by publishing fake news. No one could able to shake the Congress-JDS coalition government in the state, he said.
“Chief Minister position may go. Power is not eternal. But what we do is more important. I am committed to work for the overall development of the state. Your reports would cause lethargic attitude among officials. Thinking that the government will not survive for long time, the officials will not listen to the words of the ministers and MLAs. So, media should not allow this development to happen”, he said.
The news that ten MLAs from Congress would go to BJP and they were in Hyderabad was just a fake news. You people write that the coalition government will collapse during Gowri Ganesh festival by listening to the words of some vested interests. Later, you say by Gandhi Jayanti and Dasara. Don’t create confusion among people for somebody’s political gains, he told media people.
No link between development and loan waiver
“The reports that I have waived off the farmers loans in the development funds are not true. A sum of Rs 2.18 lakh crore was earmarked in the budget for the development works in different departments. I have not waived off the farmers loans from this amount. I have been using the tax amount for loan waiver. Every month the government has been repaying the amount for cooperative department. For nationalized banks, the government has asked four installments. Some people have been doing politics in that too. The loans of the nationalized banks will be cleared well in advance”, he said.
Strict measure to check leakage of tax money
The Chief Minister said that the government would take stringent measures to check the leakage of tax money and collect the due tax amount.
Action against officials who ignore government orders
The Chief Minister warned the officials of taking strict action against them if they ignore the government orders or directions and against those who neglect in implementing the government directions effectively. If the officials neglect development works because of the media reports that the government would collapse at any time, he would take stringent action against them. The government was safe and strong. There was no threat to it. He has been observing all the 30 districts and act against the officials who fail to discharge their duties efficiently, he warned.
“Only the officials who work honestly and efficiently will get protection. No casteism and relationship. Only development is important for me. Officials have to follow the new programmes to be taken up in the interests of the state. So, if the officials neglect the development works, they will have to face the music”, the CM said.
Chamarajnagar MLA L Nagendra presided over the programme, in which Higher Education and Mysuru district minister GT Deve Gowda, Tourism Minister SR Mahesh, MLC Marithibbe Gowda, ZP president Nayima Sultana Nazeer Ahmed, principal Prof CH Prakash, lecturers Prof HM Basavaraj, Dr Vijayalakshmi, Dr Vijay and others were present.
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After poll debacle, defeated MVA candidates to seek verification of EVM-VVPAT units
Mumbai(PTI): The Maha Vikas Aghadi candidates who faced defeat in the recent Maharashtra assembly polls have decided to seek verification of the EVM-Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs) units in their segments, a leader of the opposition alliance said.
Many losing candidates of the opposition Shiv Sena (UBT) pointed fingers at the functioning of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) during their interaction with party head Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday.
Thackeray took stock of the lacklustre performance of his party at a meeting held at his residence in Mumbai.
The poll verdict last week saw the Mahayuti coalition, comprising the Shiv Sena, BJP, and NCP, retaining power with a massive mandate, pushing the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) to margins.
The Mahayuti won 230 seats and MVA only 46 in the 288-member House.
The Thackeray-led Sena (UBT) emerged as the largest party in the opposition camp by winning 20 seats, followed by Congress which bagged 16 constituencies, while the NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) sits at the bottom with a tally of 10 seats.
Talking to PTI on Tuesday, Congress leader Arif Naseem Khan, who lost the election from Chandivali assembly constituency in Mumbai, said he held a discussion with Thackeray, who also said he has got complaints from his party workers that EVMs could have been tampered.
"We are getting complaints from different parts of the state expressing doubts over the results. In a democracy, complaints need to be verified and many of us, including myself, (who faced defeat) are in the process of applying for the verification," Khan said.
As per the Supreme Court's judgement on April 26 this year, the burnt memory/microcontroller in 5 per cent of the EVMs - the control unit, ballot unit and the VVPAT - per assembly constituency shall be checked and verified by a team of engineers from manufacturers of the EVMs, after the announcement of results, for any tampering or modification, he said.
A written request for this has to be made by candidates who are in the second or third position behind the highest polled candidate.
Such a request has to be made within seven days of declaration of the result, Khan said.
A candidate making the request will have to pay the expenses of Rs 41,000 which will be refunded in case the machine is found to be tampered with, he said.
The microcontroller is a one-time programmable chip embedded into the three units of EVM-Ballot Unit, Control Unit and the VVPAT - at the time of manufacturing, as per the SC.
A Sena (UBT) MLA from Mumbai has claimed there were discrepancies between the votes polled and the votes counted in the EVMs.
"Almost all candidates raised doubts over the EVMs," the legislator said.
