Education, health and food our government's priority: Siddaramaiah
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said that providing education, health, and food is the priority of the State government. He was speaking after inaugurating the centenary celebrations of the Kuruba credit cooperative society in Gadag on Tuesday.
Pointing out that even after 75 years of accepting the Constitution, providing education to all was yet to be fulfilled. The Chief Minister said that education-organisation-agitation was the mantra given by B.R. Ambedkar, which should be followed by all.
Even before the Constitution came into existence, a few visionaries organised the Kuruba community and established the cooperative society, he said.
Mr. Siddaramaiah said that as the downtrodden and backward classes were deprived of the 'word culture', they remained socially and economically backward. 'The downtrodden and the backward classes were prevented from getting educated. Ambedkar's life struggle was for alleviating inequality and he realised that education was the main tool to achieve it,' he said.
Underscoring importance of education, Mr. Siddaramaiah said if he had not got a teacher like Rajappa he would not have been educated and wouldn't have become chief Minister.
'That's why our government has prioritised education, health, and food. If the aspirations of Ambedkar, Basavanna, and Mahatma Gandhi have to be fulfilled, then everyone should get education and get economic strength,' he said.
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