Resign if you can’t manage, Siddaramaiah tells BS Yediyurappa

Chikkamagaluru, Oct 6: Congress leader Siddaramaiah urged CM BS Yediyurappa to resign if he’s finding it difficult to run the state. He made the comments after visiting the families of Chandregowda and Channappa Gowda, who committed suicide following crop losses in the floods, and handing over compensation of Rs 50,000 each.

“Yediyurappa is saying he’s walking on a tightrope. The government will last only till the year-end. In 2020, the state will go in for fresh elections. BJP leaders are saying the exchequer is empty. When I was CM, the exchequer was never empty for five years. In just seven days after forming the government, BJP leaders started saying the exchequer is empty,” he said.

“The loss to farmers is over Rs 1 lakh crore, but the state government submitted a report stating Rs 38,000-crore loss. The Centre has released Rs 1,200 crore; it’s not enough. It must release Rs 5,000 crore as interim relief,” he said.

Asked why no other Congress leaders, except him, are talking against the government, he alleged the Centre is misusing agencies to silence critics. In Mangaluru, he said: “Modi’s government is fascist and he runs his administration like Hitler.”