Bengaluru, Apr 20: Seeking to the woo the trading community in country's IT capital, BJP national
president Amit Shah has asserted that the Narendra Modi-led dispensation has
changed the scale of development works and promised the citizens here that if
voted to power his party will turn Karnataka as a 'corruption free' model state.
“Before 2014, the situation was grim in the country. We
changed the scale of work. Our government worked to ensure that there is no
household without a toilet, no person without a bank account or a village
without electricity. Before 2014, a number of corruption cases came coming out
and the total figure for corruption was Rs 12 lakh crore," Mr Shah said
addressing a convention of traders and industry leaders here on Thursday
evening.
Mr Shah said it is due to the tireless works of the BJP
government in the centre that in the last four years 29 lakh people had got
bank accounts, 7.5 lakh toilets had been built and 9 lakh families and poor
women had got gas cylinders.
Often under attack for not providing jobs since 2014 as was
promised by Prime Minister Mr Modi, the BJP president said no government would
be able to provide employment to all the youth in the country.
“But our leader and Prime Minister found a new avenue of self
employment, and without any guarantee or guarantor it gave youth loans ranging
between Rs 10,000 and Rs 10 lakh and people have benefited," he said.
He charged the Chief Minister Siddaramaiah with
"destroying" Bengaluru by neglecting its infrastructure and went on
to state that the Chief Minister on the contrary always uses a costly wrist
watch.
"This gathering has affluent people. Any one of have
such costly watches?," he asked and then said the Chief Minister has it.
"We have raised the question on who gave the watch to
the Chief Minister and are yet to get an answer," said Mr Shah.
Organised by BJP's separate wings, during his two-day stay,
Mr Shah addressed a number of such meets including traders,
community leaders from OBCs and sought to pitch for the
return of BJP-ld government.
He also questioned Congress contribution over the last 60
years and took a potshot at Mr Rahul Gandhi for his "ignorance" on
the difference between loan waivers and non-performing assets.
He also said the Congress chief had even failed to pronounce
the name of Sir M Visvesvaraya, the celebrated engineer, scholar, statesman,
and the 19th Diwan of Mysore.
"Rahul Gandhi does not understand the difference between
loan waive and NPAs. He is misleading the country with his ignorance. Let him
first learn to pronounce Visvesvaraya's name," Mr Shah said.
On a pressing issue of GST implementation and hardship
resulted due to it, the BJP chief the decision to implement GST was taken after
all the state Chief Ministers but maintained the GST Council has been
effectively resolving the issues related to the uniform taxation norms. UNI
