Slamming Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for not attending the 10th meeting of the NITI Aayog Governing Council in New Delhi, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP on Sunday said Karnataka deserves better.State BJP President B Y Vijayendra termed the CM’s absence a deliberate withdrawal from opportunities that could shape Karnataka’s future.
He accused Siddaramaiah of desperately clinging to a slipping chair and focusing more on appeasing the Congress high command.
Sources close to the Chief Minister cited a “prior engagement” in the state as the reason for Siddaramaiah skipping the meeting in New Delhi on Saturday and said he had sent his speech to be read out at the council.
They clarified that the Chief Minister did not “boycott” the meeting.
“The Congress government in Karnataka, unable to hide its complete lack of development work, keeps harping about what the Centre owes, as if blaming Delhi will somehow cover up its failures. But governance is not a blame game or a chorus of complaints; it is a shared responsibility built on cooperation and commitment to the people,” Vijayendra posted on ‘X’.