In my economics, the wealthy pay taxes, while the poor get them. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah defended his government’s guarantee programs on Tuesday, saying that his economics is only about taxing the wealthy and distributing the money to the underprivileged, women, and Dalits in order to give them more power.

“In the last nine months, we have tried to give justice to deprived classes through guarantees,” Siddaramaiah responded to the governor’s speech, which placed a strong emphasis on promises. He said, “Our programmes are empowering the poor to escape the BPL status and assisting crores of people.”

Opposition MPs left the chief minister’s speech midway through, claiming it was a political speech rather than a response to the governor’s message.

Siddaramaiah went on to say that his administration boosted the amount of money it allotted to guarantee initiatives from Rs 36,000 crore to Rs 52,000 crore this fiscal year. We took action on behalf of the underprivileged and lower classes. While recipients are pleased, opposing parties refer to them as freebies. I’m glad that a lot of people, regardless of caste or religion, have benefited from our assurance programs,” he said.

Over 60 lakh women have traveled freely since the assurance programs were put into place; Rs 8,553 crore of the Rs 10,225 crore set aside for Anna bhagya has been spent; 1.18 crore women heads of households have got Rs 2,000 per month; and many other things have happened. Above all, he said, “there is no middleman involved in this.”

The chief minister said he did not know about “Siddanomics” and that all he knew was sound economics, which he achieved via assurances. “Economic stability has been good because of these,” he said.

According to him, the BJP never achieved power by its own might. All of them, including DV Sadananda Gowda, Jagadish Shettar, BS Yediyurappa, and Basavaraj Bommai, opted for Operation Kamala in order to gain power via a backdoor. “Like the BJP, we never lied and we did justice as an opposition party too,” he said. He said that the hate-filled BJP administration remained in place.

He said that the BJP has always been anti-minority, anti-farmers, anti-labour, anti-women, and anti-Dalit.

“We pay Rs 100 as tax and in return they give us only Rs 13,” he added, criticizing the Center for withholding the state’s tax portion. Despite our repeated correspondence and in-person meetings, they have not given any funding for drought assistance, the guy said. He said that the state administration is distributing money to the recipients of the Anna Bhagya plan rather than the obligatory 5 kg of rice since the Center did not provide the state with the necessary amount of rice.