BJP leaders are protesting outside the Vidhan Soudha in Karnataka, claiming the state government has allocated ₹60 crore to pay salaries to Congress workers. The BJP alleges this funding comes from taxpayers' money and demands the order be rolled back. The Congress justifies the appointments, comparing them to board appointments in various organisations. This issue has sparked a debate on the use of government funds for party workers.
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00:00Chaotic scenes being seen right outside the Vidhan Soudha in Karnataka and the question here coming in from the BJP
00:07Will Karnataka taxpayers now fund the Congress Party workers as well?
00:11The BJP is now claiming 60 crore rupees government funding has been set for Congress workers
00:1760 crore rupees for Congress workers
00:20This is right now over the guarantee splurge coming in basically the BJP leaders as you can see are protesting
00:26That why what about the salary to the Congress workers where is this coming from is this coming from the government that means from
00:32Taxpayers money immediately going across to my colleague Sagai Raj for the latest. Sagai go ahead
00:37What are you picking up about? What exactly is the BJP claiming here?
00:46You can see that BJP stage protests in front of Vidhan Soudha demanding that the Karnataka government should roll back the order
00:52Which has been passed that they'll be dispersing the salary to Congress workers who are appointed as president and vice-president to look after
01:00the implementation of
01:02Guarantee schemes in every single cities
01:04So this is a government program and the Congress have justified saying that just like how you appoint the board of directors in various
01:12organization various cooperatives
01:14Likewise, they are also appointing the Congress workers in various board
01:19Which will look after of the implementation of guarantee schemes like whether the people are getting the guarantee schemes or whether they have
01:27any kind of hassle these
01:29Members these leaders are will look into it and they will be getting the government salary to them
01:34So the BJP has staged a protest demanding that you should roll back
01:38You should not try to give the funds from the government and they have also
01:43Hit out at Karnataka Congress government that when you don't have funds for guaranteed
01:47You don't have funds for various other boards and various other issues
01:50But still you are have allocated 60 crore rupees to give salaries to your own Congress employees
01:57So this is this is something which is unacceptable and they are stay on with these a guy stay on workers
02:03We have reactions coming in from the Bharatiya Janata Party C T Ravi senior leader speaking
02:08But that's a leg up cup that's a leg up a hunk our cup that's a leg up. No, but I'm be taking it
02:13Rania Rania Rania Rania Rania Rao case may say it a case a John Jonah
02:21Cone have a scapegoat both bada bada name Chacha mayhe. Which Monty on Kanambi Chacha mayhe
02:30All right, so remember BJP leaders are also right now currently on protest full-on from all sides targeting the Congress government
02:38Let's listen into our Ashok now
02:44Oh
02:51Congress
02:52Now they are rising the all the taxes petrol diesel
02:57Milk everything they are collecting the money from the pool. They are giving the Congress party workers
03:04Here who is working for the government development for the education?
03:09Ashok are a cut the Anganwadi
03:12Character they are crying. They are taking three thousand four thousand five thousand rupees monthly
03:17This Congress people are taking forty thousand rupees more than sixty crores of money. They are looting
03:25Congress people that's why this is a constitutionally illegal
03:31Because poor money poor taxpayers money going to Congress party workers a pocket. This is illegal
03:38That's why you are protesting. We are submitting the memorandum to the governor
03:45Our Ashok remember the leader of opposition in the Karnataka Assembly right now Sagai continues to be with us
03:51Sagai tell me this this is looks like a strategy clearly of the BJP to charge
03:57But this is a serious allegation and people of Karnataka listening right now
04:01When the BJP says now Congress workers will get a salary from the Karnataka or Bengaluru taxpayers money
04:13See if you notice that this has been a practice from a very long time whether it is BJP or
04:17Congress whenever you are operating a board of directors for various corporations various
04:24Boards you go ahead and appoint a Congress workers or Congress leaders and the Congress has justified just like you're appointing board chair
04:30Benson others for the from Congress workers. Likewise, we are appointing the same
04:36Congress workers to look after the guarantee skins is implemented or not
04:39So the but the BJP is demanding that why you have to pay from the government you should pay from the party
04:44Why are you doing this?
04:45So the government has justified when you appoint same BJP workers as board of chairman and corporation head
04:52Why not the Congress can do the BJP staging the protest and this is not the this is not something new
04:57This particular order was implemented on 24th of July
05:012024 despite to assembly session now, the BJP has taken up. In fact, BJP has taken up very late
05:07They were supposed to take up probably during the month of
05:11Behind you the BJP leaders are full-on protesting right outside the Vidhan Soudha premises stay on because just a short while ago
05:17Sagai spoke to the senior leader of the BJP CT Ravi. Let's listen in
05:23After
05:27University camp DNA Kaliya paisa naive
05:32Professors co salary in a key levy paisa naive
05:38Board co paisa de board co paisa. No idea a
05:44Guarantee committee
05:47constitute KK
05:48Congress car a curtain ko paisa bant rahe Sarkar ka
05:51So that's what C.T. Ravi is saying that you don't have money for
06:21so many guarantees that the government promised.
06:24But somehow there's money coming in for the Congress workers as salaries.
06:28So I bring in Sagai again.
06:29Sagai, just put it in perspective for us.
06:32How did the issue of Congress workers getting salary, which should be a Congress organizational
06:38decision, becoming a BJP versus Congress and in many ways government versus opposition
06:43blame game?
06:44See, absolutely.
06:45The BJP has claimed that when they don't have money for disbursement of guarantee money
06:55to the people and beneficiaries, when you don't have money for various other programs
07:00and you increase the taxes, you increase the prices of water and various other amenities,
07:05why you don't utilize the same money for all those things and reduce the burden on the
07:09people?
07:10You have to create an extra post for Congress workers and you use the tax funds to disburse
07:17as a salary around 60 crore rupees to all these appointees.
07:22So the BJP is demanding that you should roll back, you should reconsider.
07:26Yesterday, even on the floor of the House, the Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka, D.K.
07:30Shukla Kumar has categorically mentioned that when you appoint the BJP workers of Board
07:34of Chairmen and various other things, why can't Congress do that?
07:37They are doing the same thing what the BJP had done when they were in power.
07:41And they also said that they will try to consider in the Thursday Cabinet meeting, tomorrow
07:45there is a Cabinet meeting, they will try to discuss about it but they did not promise
07:49that they will roll back.
07:50They protested inside the House and they staged a walkout and now today in front of Vidas
07:55Odha, the BJP is continuing the protest, demanding the Karnataka Congress government to roll
08:00back that particular program.
08:02Sagai, we will be tracking the latest on this, stay on with me because right now remember
08:06in Karnataka the visuals that you are looking at is BJP in opposition, full on strategy
08:12to charge at the Congress government while already remember they have been in controversy
08:16in the recent smuggling allegation that has come in to which the Congress says we have
08:21nothing to do with it.
08:22It is possibly the former BJP government that gave real estate deals.
08:25Now the BJP says look at another issue, Congress workers are getting salary from the party,
08:32from the government and taxpayers of the state will have to now pay for it.