Karnataka Congress MLA says one or two guarantee schemes should be scrapped, backtracks later

However, Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, who is besides the authorities Congress president, said nary of the 5 warrant schemes would beryllium discontinued. He besides said that a showcause announcement would beryllium issued to the Vijayanagara MLA seeking his explanation.

Speaking to reporters successful Bengaluru, Shivakumar said, “We person fixed a connection to the radical of the authorities connected the guarantees and we volition basal by it astatine immoderate cost. No MLA of the Congress enactment should question the warrant schemes,” helium said, adding that the enactment would instrumentality enactment if anyone did so.

In a clarification later, Gaviyappa said, “I did not inquire for the schemes to beryllium scrapped. I said the schemes tin beryllium reviewed.” He precocious told a quality transmission that funds allocated to MLAs had decreased due to the fact that of the warrant schemes.

Other Congress leaders including PWD Minister Satish Jarkiholi person called for a reappraisal of the warrant schemes to forestall the affluent from benefiting from them.

Independent MLA Darshan Puttannaiah, who supports the Congress successful the Assembly, has besides raised concerns of deficiency of funds for improvement enactment arsenic the warrant schemes country a lion’s stock of funds.