Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. File.

Appealing to individuals to vote Congress to energy in all eight Assembly segments of Dakshina Kannada within the subsequent Assembly election, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah stated on Monday (October 20) {that a} authorities medical school in Puttur will probably be a actuality at any price.

Addressing a gathering at ‘Ashoka Jana Mana – 2025’ programme organised by Rai Estate Educational and Charitable Trust at Puttur, the Chief Minister stated that the Opposition get together leaders have expressed doubts over the federal government’s committment to determine the faculty. An announcement on opening the faculty at Puttur was made by Mr. Siddaramaiah within the 2025-26 State Budget.

“A authorities hospital and the federal government medical school will probably be opened in Puttur as introduced. There needn’t be any doubt over the identical as a result of we (the Congress authorities) have delivered what promised,” the Chief Minister stated significantly referring to the implementation of 5 assure schemes of the Congress authorities.

Mr. Siddaramaiah stated that as the federal government has made its guarantees a actuality he has the fitting to hunt individuals to elect Congress to energy in all seats in Dakshina Kannada within the subsequent election. The Congress gained two of eight Assembly seats within the district within the 2023 election leaving the opposite seats to the BJP.

The Chief Minister stated that the Opposition events which had mocked on the assure schemes of the Congress authorities emulated the identical in some states later. “Even the Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that Karnataka will go bankrupt if the federal government applied assure schemes. Did we go bankrupt now,” he requested.

Mr. Siddaramaiah stated that Karnataka authorities to this point spent ₹1 lakh crore to implement the assure schemes.

Criticising the Union authorities for patting on its again for rationalising the GST charges after eight years of its implementation, Mr. Siddaramaiah stated that Karnataka alone might lose ₹15,000 crore yearly from the identical. “Then why did the Modi authorities gather big taxes since 2017?,” he requested.

Mr. Siddaramaiah stated that after the federal government posted two “environment friendly” police officers to Dakshina Kannada (Police Commissioner to Mangaluru and Superintendent of Police to Dakshina Kannada district) legislation and order within the district has improved. Maintaining communal concord mattered within the progress of a district or state, he stated.

The Chief Minister stated that the federal government will enact legal guidelines to stop spreading misinformation and faux information and spoiling communal concord.

Puttur MLA and founding father of the belief Ashok Kumar Rai stated that the programme organised on Monday was the thirteenth annual one organised by the belief to distribute garments and different utensils to the needy on the event of Deepavali.

Published – October 21, 2025 05:07 am IST