Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, following a row over his ‘luxurious’ jet journey, on Friday mentioned, “Ask the BJP how PM Modi travels.”
“How does Narendra Modi travel? Ask this question to the BJP. Ask BJP members which aircraft Narendra Modi uses for travel, he travels alone in those aircraft,” the Karnataka Chief Minister mentioned.
“Why does he travel alone? Direct this question to them,” Siddaramaiah mentioned.
A row erupted after BJP chief Amit Malviya took to X on Friday and slammed the Congress occasion over its crowdfunding marketing campaign. Malviya mentioned Siddaramaiah and Zameer Ahmed Khan had ‘comfortable moments’ travelling collectively to Delhi, to hunt funds for drought aid.
The video confirmed Siddaramaiah together with Housing Minister Khan and Income Minister Krishna Byre Gowda, amongst others.
Later, Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar tried to downplay the jet concern and mentioned “private jet rides are normal for chief ministers”.
“The BJP is unable to digest Congress’s progress. Private jet rides are normal for chief ministers for official work and there is nothing wrong with it,” he mentioned.
BJP chief Shehzad Poonawalla too took a dig at Siddaramaiah and Khan, saying, “The Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka tells his MLAs and people that there is no money left for development because all the money has been splurged on the so-called promises made by the Congress party which they are unable to fulfill.”
“We see the ministers of the Karnataka government doing photo shoots and splurging in VVIP planes and jet planes at the cost of taxpayer money along with the chief minister to ask for funds for drought relief. Congress’s mindset is to use any state it gets power in as an ATM. They did that in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. Now it has turned to Karnataka and Telangana,” the BJP chief mentioned.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi additionally criticised the Karnataka Chief Minister for utilizing the personal jet and mentioned that the “Congress asks for donations and then uses jets”.
Karnataka BJP chief CT Ravi additionally shared the video, saying the state authorities doesn’t have funds to pay our farmers affected by drought but it surely has all of the funds to fly the chief minister.