The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is holding a protest outside Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's official residence in Bengaluru, after a viral video of Central Jail, showcasing "VVIP treatment" for inmates, including ISIS terrorists and rapists, surfaced online. Officials have been d
"How is this even allowed inside the T2 Terminal of Bengaluru International Airport? Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Minister Priyank Kharge, do you approve of this?" Prasad said.
In a post shared on social media platform X on Saturday, Siddaramaiah wrote, "Lakhs of sugarcane farmers in Karnataka are in distress as the Union Govt evades the core issue of the widening gap between cultivation cost and price realisation."
The new procurement price was fixed after Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had a discussion with the representatives of sugar factory owners and the farmers.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday met sugarcane factory owners and farmers at Vidhana Soudha to discuss sugarcane pricing, ethanol production, and exports. Responding to their concerns, he said, "We will stand with the farmers. You too must be ready to help solve their probl
"The central government is not increasing the MSP rate to complement the FRP rate. The central government has not increased the MSP rate since 2019. It has not increased the ethanol rate either," the Chief Minister's office said.
Amid protests by sugarcane farmers demanding a fair price in Karnataka, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that the central government sets the fixed-rate price.
Slamming the BJP, he added that the Central and state governments provided Rs 1.5 lakh each, and the poor had to pay the remaining Rs 4.5 lakh for the house. He claimed that only Rs 300 crore had been sanctioned out of the required Rs 7,400 crore in the last ten years.
"During Siddaramaiah's previous term as Chief Minister, over one lakh houses were built for the people. But the BJP government did not construct even a single house when they were in power," Zameer Ahmad said while speaking to presspersons here.
The Karantaka CM further said that he would go for campaigning in the Bihar elections and noted that the current government has no ideology, as he is forming an alliance with many parties.