If PM sets that the Cong funded Rs 700 crore for electoral states, K’taka’s chief minister will step down

Siddaramaiah, the chief minister of Karnataka, has declared that he will step down from politics if Prime Minister Narendra Modi can demonstrate that the Congress government has raised Rs 700 crore for states that are about to go to elections. In addition, Siddaramaiah urged Modi to step down if he couldn’t back up his claims from Akola in Maharashtra.

“I am surprised to see the prime minister of this country lies so much. While campaigning somewhere in Maharashtra, the prime minister said that the Congress in Karnataka has collected Rs 700 crore through the excise department to send to Maharashtra, Jharkhand, and to spend on the bypolls,” Siddaramaiah said at an election rally in Shiggaon in Haveri district on Sunday night.

“Today I challenge Narendra Modi that if he can prove these allegations, I will retire from politics. If you cannot, then you should retire,” the chief minister said.

According to him, such accusations should be closer to the truth when made by a prime minister, but they are far from it. He went on to say that the nation has never had a prime leader who lies so much in India’s history since independence.

During a public meeting at Akola in Maharashtra, the prime minister said, “In the name of election in Maharashtra, the extortion in Karnataka has doubled. While elections are in Maharashtra, extortions are happening in Karnataka and Maharashtra. There are allegations that in Karnataka these people (Congress) have extorted Rs 700 crore from the liquor shops.