Mangaluru:  MP Nalin Kumar Kateel is laziest for Dakshina Kannada. He taking credit for works done by others,   said former minister B Ramanatha Rai, on July 2nd.

Speaking to presspersons at the Congress Office Rai said, Nalin has not done any development work except giving provocative speeches.

Recently Nalin Kumar Kateel blamed Abhayachandra Jain and Moideen Bava an d me  for the delay in Mangaluru – Sholapur road works. Even Karkala MLA will also come under this list which he has left out.

He also mentioned the reconstruction works of a collapsed bridge at Bondantila whose work had commenced within two days during his tenure. He took the MP to task for unnecessarily blaming others on the sand mafia issue and said that the problem has been persisting since many years.

Rai claimed that substantial development works had been done in the district and that the Siddaramaiah government’s term in the state was the golden age of development. Yet, during election time, Nalin begins to blames others. He also pulled up the MP for blaming him, Moidin Bava and Abhayachandra Jain for the slow pace of Mangaluru-Solhapur Highway works.

Rai pointed out that when he was the minister he had convened a meeting in the presence of the Special Land Acquisition Officer thrice, but Nalin had abstained all three times. “Why is he complaining now that the land acquisition is over?” asked the former minister.