CM advisor hints at budget strain, asks people to choose
Yelburga, July 6 -- The Congress government in Karnataka has found itself at the centre of a growing political controversy after Basavaraj Raya Reddy, a senior party MLA and economic adviser to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, asked people to "choose between guarantees or development" during a public address in Yelburga today.
While inaugurating a local project, Reddy appeared to hint at budgetary limitations, saying, "Say I don't want rice or anything. If you say, 'only build village roads', we will do that too. I will suggest Siddaramaiah stop it as people are asking us to. Should I tell him?"
In his remarks, delivered in Kannada and widely circulated by media outlets, he continued: "If you want an asphalt road or a school, understand that ev...
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