Janata Dal (Secular) chief HD Deve Gowda says he had offered to quit as an MP after Narendra Modi came to power, but was stopped from doing so by the PM himself. “I met him after the polls and offered to quit. Modi stopped me, saying that I am an elderly leader and must forget poll-time jibes,” says Gowda.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, accusing him of not extending the Centre’s crop insurance scheme to Karnataka’s farmers. “I keep getting complaints regarding Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana from…
The Karnataka government was indifferent… it did not care about the benefits that a farmer can get from the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana. If the state government was active during drought, it would have benefited farmers, but they did not do it,” he said. Hitting back,
the CM tweeted Karnataka was the first state to deploy IT to directly pay insurance into farmers’ account. “Sir, Govt of Karnataka paid 50% of the cost of the PM Fasal Beema Yojana. Ours is the only Govt in the country that has deployed IT to directly pay the insurance amount into farmers’ account. Also crop insurance is old UPA scheme So, have a heart & share credit where it is due (sic),” Siddaramaiah tweeted.
