The JD(S) on Thursday hit out at the BJP Government in Karnataka on the issue of tackling the flood situation, alleging it could not deploy helicopters to evacuate affected people but had arranged special planes to ferry rebel MLAs to Mumbai.
“You (BJP) could arrange special aeroplane to ferry disgruntled MLAs (of Congress and the JDS) to Mumbai but you could not arrange a helicopter for the poor people dying due to flood,” the Janata Dal (Secular) tweeted.
Those who arranged the stay of rebel MLAs in the five-star hotel in Mumbai could not set up even the rice starch centres for the poor people, the party led by former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda alleged.
“Do you get sadistic pleasure by seeing lakhs of people in distress? Is this why you toppled a perfectly functioning govt? To see people suffer? Shame on you!” the JD(S) said.
The Congress-JD(S) coalition government led by HD Kumaraswamy collapsed last month after the group of rebel MLAs resigned, reducing the Government to a minority.