Karnataka   

In the shadow of the people

S. Rajendran

BANGALORE: Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy has said that his focus over the next eight months of his tenure would be to retrieve prime government land in and around Bangalore, which had been usurped by "land grabbers". Equally, he would keep the focus on reaching out to the poorer sections of society with appropriate welfare programmes, including a scheme to extend credit to petty traders, street vendors and small businesses at low interest rates.

On the eve of the first anniversary of the Janata Dal (Secular)-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) coalition Government in the State, he told The Hindu that a 20-month term for a Chief Minister was too short to achieve tangible results.

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