Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai took a swipe on the Congress Monday, declaring the opposition celebration turns into sad on the sight of saffron. The Congress had slammed the ruling Bharatiya Janata Occasion over the choice to color state-run colleges in that hue.
Insisting ‘it isn’t proper to do politics on such points’, Bommai mentioned Swami Vivekananda was the inspiration behind saffron being chosen. “… it one of many colors in our nationwide flag. Congress is all the time sad once they see saffron color. The brand new lecture rooms are named after Swami Vivekananda, who was a monk. Therefore the architect advised saffron… it would not have any political intentions,” the chief minister mentioned.
The Congress has demanded lecture rooms and college infrastructure be painted within the colors of the nationwide flag. The state’s communications chief, Priyank Kharge, mentioned, “Why solely saffron? You declare to be essentially the most nationalistic celebration in impartial India so paint it in tri-colour. What’s your excuse? Are govt and edu division being run by architects now?”
Nonetheless, he additionally clarified the Congress doesn’t even have any downside with the color.
“We’re not opposing saffron however the authorities’s priorities. There’s crumbling infrastructure, academics’ scarcity, no price range allotted for full infrastructure, dropouts growing. Out of all this, the federal government’s precedence is to color a wall,” he mentioned.