‘Two years of BJP governance is marked by corruption scandals’

‘Instead of double-engine growth, we got maladministration’

The BJP government, which came to power through “defections”, completed two years in office with a long list of corruption scandals that dashed the hopes of good administration and the promise of a double-engine government for the State, alleged Leader of the Opposition and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised a double-engine government to the State, with the BJP in power both at the State and the Centre. But instead of that, what we got was a corrupt government and maladministration on all fronts, right from handling the pandemic to floods,” the Congress leader alleged. Releasing a 64-page booklet on “corruption scandals and failures” of the BJP government both in Karnataka and at the Centre during the last two years, here on Thursday, Mr. Siddaramaiah claimed that BJP leader B.S. Yediyurappa had been removed to control the damage to the government. Corruption was rampant in departments and officials had been writing to him on corruption cases in the government, he said.