Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Aug 29: Former minister D K Shivakumar, asked chief minister, B S Yediyurappa, to keep up the promise of payment of compensation of five lac rupees for house construction and monthly rent of Rs 5,000 he promised to the flood-affected people.
He was speaking to media persons. He warned that his party will carry out agitation against the state government if it fails to properly respond to the needs of the affected people.
Shivakumar said that emergency relief amount has been distributed in Kundagol constituency but Belagavi is yet to do it. "The BJP was pressurizing Kumaraswamy to waive farmers’ loans before he proved his majority. Now let alone loan waiver, I doubt whether they will honour their commitment and distribute relief and compensation amount as promised to flood-affected people who have become destitute," he commented.
Shivakumar said that 17 portfolios which have not been allotted in the state, have been kept pending, awaiting the arrival of our Mumbai friends. He said he is eagerly awaiting to see them becoming ministers.