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BJP criticised Cong guarantee schemes, but now following them in Delhi, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, says DK Shivakumar
The Statesman Delhi
|March 12, 2025
The BJP and its top national leadership had criticised the Congress party and its guarantees that it implemented within days of assuming power, but today the BJP is following the Congress model of guarantees in Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Maharashtra, asserted Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DSK Shivakumar in the assembly.
This assertion came when he was responding to a claim by a BJP MLA Sunil Kumar that the BJP did not object to the guarantee schemes. Promptly Shivakumar reminded him that the entire BJP ecosystem starting from the Prime Minister Narendra Modi downwards to MLAs had criticised when Congress came up with its welfare programmes aimed at the people.
"Everyone from the Prime Minister to an MLA of BJP have criticised the guarantee schemes. Irrespective of the opposition, we went ahead and rolled it out. The guarantee schemes will not stop as long as the Congress government is in power," Shivakumar declared.
This story is from the March 12, 2025 edition of The Statesman Delhi.
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