Bengaluru : Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is leaving for Delhi today and will be meeting the Prime Minister on June 29 at 8:00 AM.

He informed the media about this after garlanding the statue of NadaPrabhu Kempegowda on the eastern side of Vidhana Soudha on the occasion of his 515th birth anniversary.

CM has called a meeting of All newly elected Lok Sabha members and Rajya Sabha members and Union Ministers from the state are also invited. He said that he will discuss about the state government projects to be approved by the Centre, and that everyone should help to these projects sanctioned on behalf of the state government. They will be asked to get the funds released and make efforts to increase resources for the state, he said.

Meeting with Union Ministers

The CM said that some of the ministers will also accompany him to Delhi. He is scheduled to meet the Prime Minister, the Minister of Land Transport, the Railways Minister, the Jalshakti Minister, the Home Minister, and the Finance Minister. The Home Minister is yet to schedule the meeting, he said.

List of works submitted

He said that the Revenue Minister, Krishna Byre Gowda, has already presented a list of things that Karnataka expects in the budget to be presented by the new government.

Rahul Gandhi Will ably handle his responsibility as the voice of the people

Responding to a question on Rahul Gandhi and the Prime Minister meeting the Speaker of the Lok Sabha for the first time together, the CM said that as per the tradition, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition together met and greeted the Speaker and escorted him to his chair. Narendra Modi is now the Prime Minister for the third time. Rahul Gandhi has toured the entire country on foot. He is aware of the country’s problems. The CM expressed confidence that he will raise these issues and handle his responsibility efficiently as the voice of the people.

India is a Pluralistic Country

Reacting to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s statement that the result of the Lok Sabha elections has proved that India is not a Hindu nation, the CM said that India is a pluralistic nation that belongs to all. We have been saying that India is a pluralistic country since the beginning. It cannot be a nation only for Hindus. He said that it is a country with a pluralistic culture where people of all castes, religions, and languages live. What Amartya Sen has said is right; we have been advocating the same since the beginning, he said.