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Kharge Writes to PM Modi, Urges ₹3,705 Crore Aid for Drought-Hit Karnataka
Kharge said Karnataka’s drought has caused crop losses and distress for lakhs of farming families, and sought Rs 3,705.30 crore in central aid.
- On Saturday, Congress President and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking Rs 3,705.30 crore in urgent central assistance for Karnataka's severe drought.
- Facing one of its gravest droughts in recent years, Karnataka has declared 177 taluks drought-affected, with ground-truthing underway in additional areas affecting more than 31 lakh farming families.
- Kharge urged the Union to calculate input subsidies using updated Bhoomi land records instead of the 2015-16 Agriculture Census, while requesting a Central team assess damage in Kalyana Karnataka.
- Seeking broader intervention, the Congress leader also wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah regarding low reservoir levels in the Cauvery, requesting enhanced support for drinking water and power security.
- Kharge stressed that "drought relief is a humanitarian imperative and must rise above political differences," urging assistance be released "on merit and with utmost urgency, uninfluenced by political considerations.
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In response to the drought crisis in Karnataka, Mallikarjun Kharge has written to Prime Minister Modi, requesting central assistance of ₹3,705.30 crore. Kharge said that drought relief is a humanitarian need and should transcend political differences between the central and state governments.
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