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Twitter Unhappy With PM’s No Development in Karnataka Jibe

Are the people of Karnataka crying out for development?

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statements that people of Karnataka want to "join the path of development" and "Karnataka wants politics of development” has irked many. A day after he made the remarks during his 29 October day-long visit to Karnataka, a handful of Twitter users responded with facts about the state’s development indexes.

During his speech at Bengaluru’s HAL airport on 29 October, Prime Minister Modi said: "Like the other states of the country, even people of Karnataka want to join the path of development quickly. I strongly believe that following the upcoming elections, even Karnataka will join the mainstream of development.”

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Following the visit, PM also tweeted that Karnataka “wants politics of developments”.

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Soon after, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s office responded a with a series of tweets defending Karnataka’s standing in development indices including the GDP, fiscal deficit and farmer loans.

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Twitter users were quick to point out that the state ranked eighth in terms of per capita income, eighth on the Human Development Index, seventh in terms of urbanisation, sixth in terms of infrastructure and fourth in the public affairs index.

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Sadanand Dhume, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, took a jibe at UP’s healthcare and said that people in Bengaluru were moving to Patna in droves.

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With the Karnataka assembly elections coming up in seven months, the war of words between political leaders in the state is only beginning to heat up. The BJP appears to have resorted to the development card while campaigning for votes in Karnataka, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading the way in claiming that the people of Karnataka are crying for development.

(With inputs from The News Minute)

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