Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has repeated baseless and irresponsible allegations made by BJP state president B.S. Yeddyurappa while addressing a public meeting at Bengaluru Palace grounds here on Sunday.

“Narendra Modi did not speak like Prime Minister. He has considered our government as 10 per cent government. It is not only baseless but also irresponsible allegation. Had he asked Yeddyurappa who was sitting beside him on the dais about what happened during latter’s tenure and why he had gone to jail just like Janardhan Reddy and others?’’ Siddaramaiah asked.

During a rally in the poll-bound state on Sunday, Modi had said: “While the world is talking about ease of doing business, and the BJP government is talking about ease of living, the Karnataka government is talking about ease of doing murder.”

The prime minister had said that several Congress leaders are facing allegations of corruption, and that there have been several reports of commission being demanded to complete projects.

Siddaramaiah also said that Modi does not have the “moral right” to talk about Lokpal (an ombudsman) as “he did not have a Lokayukta for nine years when he was the chief minister” of Gujarat. Modi is facilitating corruption, the Congress leader said, adding, “He is morally not right to be the prime minister of the country.”

Siddaramaiah also criticised Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa and BJP National President Amit Shah. “The BJP president was involved in a murder case, and he only speaks lies,” he said. “Here also they are projecting a chief ministerial candidate who has been to jail.”

Citing the examples of Haryana and Gujarat, Siddaramaiah claimed there is no protection for minorities wherever the BJP is in power.

The Congress leader also praised his government. “When we came to power, our position was 11th in the investment list,” he said. “In the past two years, we moved to number one. These are statistics released by the central government.”

Siddaramaiah has also said that the prime minister claims to have sanctioned funds for Karnataka after coming to power at the Centre, but “where do you think this money is coming from?” “It is the taxes collected in the states that is sent to the Centre,” he said. “It is our money that is coming back.”

He said as per the 14th finance commission, in the past three years, Karnataka is supposed to get Rs 95,200 crore, whereas it got Rs 84,500 crore. “So, they have to give 10,000 crores more,” he said.