Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who is all set to launch a protest “Chalo Delhi”, on Tuesday invited several other elected senior leaders also from the state which included Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Pralhad Joshi for joining the Congress party’s led protest in Jantar Mantar in Delhi.
The protest will take place today and it will be against the Centre over reduced tax devolution to Karnataka. Karnataka CM also posted a letter on Monday on social media. The letter had invited Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to the protest which is all set to take place today.
Siddaramaiah took to his ‘X’ handle (formerly known as Twitter) and tagged Sitharaman, Sabha Mallikarjun Kharg, Congress National President and Leader of Opposition in Rajya, former PM and JD(S) supremo Deve Gowda, Union Ministers Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Shobha Karandlaje and Pralhad Joshi and he also invited former Karnataka CM Sadananda Gowda to the upcoming protest.
“I have written a letter to all the dignitaries representing the state in Delhi, inviting them to participate in ‘Chalo Delhi’ protest to be held tomorrow. It is not a fight against any party, it is a fight against injustice, discrimination in tax share and grant allocation by the central government in the union system. For the future of Karnataka, for the peaceful life of the Kannadigas, tomorrow morning we have started a dharani satyagraha at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. It is the duty of all of us to convey the injustice being done to the Kannadigas to the Delhi government and ask for justice. I believe that all of you will forget your partisanship and join our voice for the benefit of Karnataka,” he wrote in the post.
