Former Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai slams Siddaramaiah-led Congress government over milk price hike
Bengaluru: Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Basavaraj Bommai has criticized the Congress administration headed by Siddaramaiah for raising milk prices, saying the move is a ploy to hide the financial difficulties brought on by their promises.
“Karnataka is very well known now for bankruptcy, corruption, and price rise,” Bommai told the media report. Prices in almost every town have been rising daily.
“For the third time in a year, they have raised the price of milk by Rs 4 today alone. Every family, particularly those in poverty, has a significant financial strain. They want to hide the insolvency that their assurances produced. It is this government’s failing,” Bommai said.
The Karnataka government stated on Thursday that the price of Nandini milk and curd will increase by Rs 4 per liter, effective April 1. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah presided over a Cabinet meeting where this decision was taken.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah called a Cabinet meeting to make the decision. Given the expense of producing and processing milk, the action attempts to promote dairy farming in the state.
Bheema Naik, the chairman of the Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF), defended the state government’s decision to raise the price of Nandini milk by Rs 4 per liter on Thursday, claiming that the farmers would bear the brunt of the higher price.
“We were charging less for milk in Karnataka than we were elsewhere in the nation. Every day, KMF purchases milk worth 86 lakh to 1 crore. The price of one liter of milk in Karnataka is Rs 42. It costs Rs 53 in Gujarat, Rs 58 in Andhra and Telangana, Rs 56 in Delhi and Maharashtra, and Rs 54 in Kerala. The interest of herders has led to this decision. He told the media report, “These four Rupees are going to farmers.”
In a social media post on X, the Karnataka BJP condemned the action and called the Congress administration “anti-poor.”
“The price of daily necessities is skyrocketing, and milk prices have increased by Rs4/.” Leaders of the Karnataka Congress are occupied with honey-trap controversies in the meanwhile. Waqf compound improvements are the government’s first priority, despite farmers’ years-long wait for milk subsidies. Congress is anti-poor, not just anti-farmers. On X, the Karnataka BJP claimed.
Vijayendra Yediyurappa, the president of the BJP Karnataka, said that the Congress administration was still raising prices for the state’s average citizens.
“These 4 rupees are going to farmers”: Karnataka Milk Federation argues in favor of raising milk prices.
Yediyurappa said in a post on X that the Congress administration, which is having trouble managing the five blessings, has been forcing price hikes on the average citizen ever since it took office. This administration seems to have joined the fray to raise the price of milk for the second time since taking office, at a time when people are already feeling the pinch of rising costs for necessities, transportation, energy, drinking water, etc.
“The current decision to increase the price of milk by Rs 4 and cut into the pockets of the common man is nothing but daylight robbery,” said Yediyurappa.
