Union Heavy Industries & Steel Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Thursday appealed to companies and investors not to quit Bengaluru over infrastructure woes, promising to teach a lesson to the unresponsive Karnataka government.
His lengthy post on X came as a reaction to an invitation by Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Nara Lokesh to Bengaluru-based logistics startup BlackBuck to Andhra Pradesh after its CEO Rajesh Yabaji announced exiting the outer ring road (ORR) over bad roads and long hours of commute for its employees. Lokesh has sought to know Yabaji’s interest in relocating to Vizag.
Kumaraswamy, who represents Mandya in the Lok Sabha, launched a scathing attack on the Congress regime for letting Bengaluru’s prestige take a beating in the eyes of investors by not fixing the potholes and craters. He held Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Dy CM DK Shivakumar responsible for the current mess in Bengaluru. “Bengaluru and Karnataka are suffering at the hands of corrupt people,” he said, highlighting potholes and garbage menace in the city.
“At every step, there is a death trap of potholes; everywhere one looks, heaps of garbage. Is this what they call Greater Bengaluru? What is BBMP doing, swallowing taxpayers’ money while doing nothing?”
Industrialists are right in calling this an utter failure of governance. You don’t need a mirror to see a festering wound,” the former CM said in his post.
The union minister threw his weight behind the complaints of industrialists and said this was the first time in history that industries have so strongly exposed the government’s failures. The government, he said, has trampled on the pride of Kannadigas. “When it comes to levying taxes, this government shows rocket speed. But when it comes to filling potholes, it doesn’t even have the speed of a tortoise. It shows madness in looting, but utter neglect towards development.”
Karnataka’s development, Kumaraswamy said, had been sacrificed at the altar of election guarantees, while Bengaluru was collapsing. “A government that claims it has no funds to fill potholes must answer: where is the taxpayers’ money going? Whose pockets is it filling? The people deserve an answer.”
Industries were losing faith in Karnataka and migrating to neighboring states. Those states have been waiting for this very moment, offering attractive concessions to woo them. “This shameless government cannot even understand the gravity of the situation; its senses have gone numb,” the former CM said.
Kumaraswamy appealed to the industries not to quit Bengaluru, pledging his support and urging them to join hands with him to rebuild Bengaluru.
The BlackBuck CEO’s post on the mess around ORR has gone viral sparking an uproar against the government on social media including from industry leaders Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw of Biocon and Aarin Capital founder Mohandas Pai.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday blamed incessant rains for the sorry state of Bengaluru’s roads.
Yabaji had on Tuesday tweeted that ORR (Bellandur) had been BlackBuck’s office for the past nine years, but it was very hard to continue now. He said the average commute for his colleagues has shot up to 90 minutes or more one way and roads were full of potholes and dust. He added he did not see any intent by the authorities to get the roads fixed, and he had no hopes of any of these changing in the next five years, sparking an uproar on social media.
The ORR between Silk Board and Hebbal is home to about 500 technology companies and startups including Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, Accenture and Wipro and business parks such as Embassy Tech Village, RMZ Ecoworld and Manyata Tech Park. About one million tech workers are estimated to commute to work, making ORR the most congested road in Bengaluru.
His lengthy post on X came as a reaction to an invitation by Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Nara Lokesh to Bengaluru-based logistics startup BlackBuck to Andhra Pradesh after its CEO Rajesh Yabaji announced exiting the outer ring road (ORR) over bad roads and long hours of commute for its employees. Lokesh has sought to know Yabaji’s interest in relocating to Vizag.
Kumaraswamy, who represents Mandya in the Lok Sabha, launched a scathing attack on the Congress regime for letting Bengaluru’s prestige take a beating in the eyes of investors by not fixing the potholes and craters. He held Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Dy CM DK Shivakumar responsible for the current mess in Bengaluru. “Bengaluru and Karnataka are suffering at the hands of corrupt people,” he said, highlighting potholes and garbage menace in the city.
“At every step, there is a death trap of potholes; everywhere one looks, heaps of garbage. Is this what they call Greater Bengaluru? What is BBMP doing, swallowing taxpayers’ money while doing nothing?”
Industrialists are right in calling this an utter failure of governance. You don’t need a mirror to see a festering wound,” the former CM said in his post.
The union minister threw his weight behind the complaints of industrialists and said this was the first time in history that industries have so strongly exposed the government’s failures. The government, he said, has trampled on the pride of Kannadigas. “When it comes to levying taxes, this government shows rocket speed. But when it comes to filling potholes, it doesn’t even have the speed of a tortoise. It shows madness in looting, but utter neglect towards development.”
Karnataka’s development, Kumaraswamy said, had been sacrificed at the altar of election guarantees, while Bengaluru was collapsing. “A government that claims it has no funds to fill potholes must answer: where is the taxpayers’ money going? Whose pockets is it filling? The people deserve an answer.”
Industries were losing faith in Karnataka and migrating to neighboring states. Those states have been waiting for this very moment, offering attractive concessions to woo them. “This shameless government cannot even understand the gravity of the situation; its senses have gone numb,” the former CM said.
Kumaraswamy appealed to the industries not to quit Bengaluru, pledging his support and urging them to join hands with him to rebuild Bengaluru.
The BlackBuck CEO’s post on the mess around ORR has gone viral sparking an uproar against the government on social media including from industry leaders Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw of Biocon and Aarin Capital founder Mohandas Pai.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday blamed incessant rains for the sorry state of Bengaluru’s roads.
Yabaji had on Tuesday tweeted that ORR (Bellandur) had been BlackBuck’s office for the past nine years, but it was very hard to continue now. He said the average commute for his colleagues has shot up to 90 minutes or more one way and roads were full of potholes and dust. He added he did not see any intent by the authorities to get the roads fixed, and he had no hopes of any of these changing in the next five years, sparking an uproar on social media.
The ORR between Silk Board and Hebbal is home to about 500 technology companies and startups including Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, Accenture and Wipro and business parks such as Embassy Tech Village, RMZ Ecoworld and Manyata Tech Park. About one million tech workers are estimated to commute to work, making ORR the most congested road in Bengaluru.
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