Siddaramaiah puts forth questionnaire on people’s woes, tells PM, ‘AnswerMadiModi’
Who’s responsible for such problems, ex-CM asks Modi on Twitter
Bengaluru: Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Sunday presented a questionnaire for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in relation to the May 10 Karnataka Assembly elections.
Asking, “Who’s responsible for this?” and tagging it ‘AnswerMadiModi’, Siddaramaiah has tweeted his questions relating to people’s problems, including poor quality of roads, increase in criminal activities and assault of people belonging to SC-ST.
“PM Modi is currently in Karnataka and speaking a lot, yet the corruption in the state has forced the presidents of the contractors’ association and of the aided education societies’ association to write to the Prime Minister himself to help them out,” the former Chief Minister said.
“During the Congress government tenure, Bengaluru was called ‘Garden City’, ‘Silicon City’, ‘IT-BT Capital’ and ‘SmartApp Capital’. Now, after the administration of the BJP government, however, Bengaluru is being called the ‘Crime Capital’ on account of the pothole-filled roads and poor management of floods,” he said, and added, “The NCRB Report states that 72 per cent of the theft cases in metropolitan cities occur in Bengaluru. This has tarnished the image of the city.”
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Bengaluru was the most popular haunt for entrepreneurs during the Congress administration, but, under the BJP government, the state capital slipped to No 17 in the list, said Siddaramaiah.
He also alleged that, due to the increase in crime rate in Bengaluru, fall in quality of amenities and bad condition of roads, Bengaluru had fallen to very low levels in the world habitability index.
“In the last three years, 31 people lost their lives due to the potholes on Bengaluru roads,” he pointed out in his tweet.
Referring to traffic congestion, the Congress leader said that the 48 per cent traffic congestion in Bengaluru had led the city to be called a city of traffic jams too. The people had been wasting a lot of their time getting caught in such congestion on the roads, he added.
“The rate of assault of people belonging to SC/ST communities has increased by 18 per cent in 2021,” Siddaramaiah pointed out, and also said, “The number of cases filed under the NDPS Act has increased by 1493 per cent, while immoral trafficking has also increased in 2021 by 61 per cent.”
The former Chief Minister tweeted, “Since the government has not permitted the implementation of the Mekedaatu Project to provide drinking water to Bengaluru City, the residents of Bengaluru are struggling for want of water. The people are forced to use private borewells and tankers to fulfill their potable water needs.”
He closes the questionnaire asking PM Modi, “Who’s responsible for this?” and demanding that the Prime Minister answer the question.
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