Siddaramaiah said that Karnataka바카라s food and civil supplies minister KH Muniyappa, who is also in Delhi, will meet Union food minister Piyush Goyal and request the supply of rice under the 'Anna Bhagya' scheme.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday to meet President Droupadi Murmu, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other ministers in what he termed as a 바카라courtesy call바카라. The meeting, however, comes amid a row over the implementation of the 바카라Anna Bagya바카라 rice scheme in the state just a month after coming to power.
"I'm meeting the President, Union Home Minister Amit Shah tomorrow... After becoming Chief Minister, I had not met (them), so I'm meeting. It is only a courtesy call," Siddaramaiah said, speaking to reporters in Bengaluru. According to the CM바카라s tour programme, he will be meeting the Union ministers post-noon.
He said that Karnataka바카라s food and civil supplies minister KH Muniyappa, who is also in Delhi, will meet Union food minister Piyush Goyal and request the supply of rice under the 'Anna Bhagya' scheme. The scheme announced as a poll promise, offers to provide 10 kg of rice (including an additional 5 kg) for BPL (below poverty line) families in the state.
Siddaramaiah has earlier accused the BJP government at the Centre of conspiring to "fail" the Congress administration's poll guarantees, like ensuring that the state doesn't get the required amount of rice for rolling out the scheme from July 1, as promised.
Siddaramaiah and his ministers have alleged that the Centre discontinued the sale of wheat and rice under OMSS(D) for state governments, a day after the FCI 바카라 which has a large number of stocks 바카라 agreed to provide 2,08,425.750 metric tonnes of rice to Karnataka, at a rate of Rs 34 per kg on June 12.
The BJP hit back at the Congress바카라 allegations, accusing Siddaramaiah and others of blatantly lying to hide their own incompetence and desperately trying to blame Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government at the Centre.
According to Congress sources, the meeting of Siddaramaiah and his entire council of ministers with the party leadership including AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Rahul Gandhi among others in Delhi that was scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed.