Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge pulls up Karnataka Dy CM D K Shivakumar over review Shakti scheme comment

Bengaluru, 31/10: The Congress government was forced to clarify that the flagship ‘guarantee’ schemes will be not be axed even as the party’s supremo Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday publicly pulled up Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar for saying that thethe popular ‘Shakti’ programme will be revisited.

Looking at your (Karnataka’s) five guarantees, I have announced five (schemes) in Maharashtra. But you (Shivakumar) have said that one (guarantee) will be dropped,” Kharge said while speaking at Congress event to observe former prime minister Indira Gandhi.