Bengaluru: Former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Tuesday introduced that if the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) authorities is voted to energy within the state, it could present a 50 % subsidy on cooking gasoline cylinders. The JDS chief was speaking to reporters throughout the lunch break whereas conducting the Pancharatna Rath Yatra within the Yeshwantpur constituency.
“The central government has implemented the Ujwala scheme by promising to provide free gas. Women who believed this were given a cylinder and given a shock of price hike. Now the price of a cylinder has crossed Rs 1,000 and it is impossible for poor people to survive,” Kumaraswamy stated.
He stated that the cooking gasoline low cost just isn’t the one scheme his social gathering has; there are a lot of extra schemes.”A total of five cylinders per year will be distributed for free. The auto drivers will be paid Rs 2,000 per month. Also, we will work to fulfill the permanent demand of Anganwadi workers,” Kumaraswamy stated. Assembly elections on 224 seats in Karnataka are scheduled within the coming months.
Janata Dal-Secular had in December, final yr, introduced the names of candidates for 93 constituencies. GT Deve Gowda, the Chamundeshwari MLA has additionally been given a ticket thus ending the hypothesis that he’ll depart the social gathering. Earlier this month, the Congress social gathering additionally introduced the primary record of candidates for the Karnataka meeting elections.
The names of former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and State social gathering president DK Shivakumar are included within the first record of 124 candidates. In the 2018 Assembly polls, BJP emerged as the only largest social gathering with 104 seats however was wanting a majority. Congress gained 78 seats whereas JDS managed to get 37 seats.
JDS in alliance with Congress fashioned a authorities and Kumaraswamy was appointed because the chief minister. However, the JDS-Congress authorities fell a yr later and BJP fashioned the federal government.
