BJP state president B.Y. Vijayendra. File photo. Image: Video screenshot
Bengaluru: Karnataka BJP president B.Y. Vijayendra has accused the Congress government of spending “a staggering ₹473 crore on advertisements in just three years”, saying the money should have gone into roads, jobs and support for farmers.
Vijayendra said the reported figure works out to more than ₹43 lakh every single day. “Development zero, publicity hero,” he said.
He listed what he called the ground reality in Karnataka: rising milk prices, bus fares, electricity and essential services; farmers battling uncertainty, drought and financial distress; young people struggling to find jobs; Bengaluru’s crumbling roads; and contractors waiting for their pending payments.
The guarantee schemes, which the Congress government projected as its greatest achievement, are themselves facing financial and implementation challenges, he said. The government, he added, appears more interested in advertising its promises than fulfilling them. “When it comes to development, the government pleads financial constraints. When it comes to publicity, the treasury seems limitless,” he said.
“People are not asking for the Chief Minister’s photograph on every newspaper page,” Vijayendra said. They want better roads, affordable living, jobs for their children, timely payments to contractors and genuine support for farmers, he said. A government is judged by the quality of life it delivers, not by the number of advertisements it publishes, and “public money is meant for public welfare, not political self-promotion”, he said.
He called this the Congress government’s “real report card”: promises without delivery, excuses without accountability and taxpayers’ money spent on self-promotion.
The ₹473 crore figure has not been independently verified, and the state government’s response to the claim was not immediately available.
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