Nalin, a lazy MP: Rai

Mangaluru: “Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel is taking credit for works done by others. I have not seen a Parliamentarian as lazy as Nalin,” said former minister B Ramanatha Rai, at the Congress Office here on July 2^nd.

Speaking to presspersons on Monday, Rai said, “Nalin who does not know what a dollar is. He has not done any development work except giving provocative speeches like setting district on fire.”

He also mentioned the reconstruction works of a collapsed bridge at Bondantila whose work had commenced within two days during his tenure. He took the MP to task for unnecessarily blaming others on the sand mafia issue and said that the problem has been persisting since many years.

Rai claimed that substantial development works had been done in the district and that the Siddaramaiah government’s term in the state was the golden age of development. Yet, during election time, Nalin begins to blames others.  He also pulled up the MP for blaming him, Moidin Bava and Abhayachandra Jain for the slow pace of Mangaluru-Solhapur Highway works.

Rai pointed out that when he was the minister he had convened a meeting in the presence of the Special Land Acquisition Officer thrice, but Nalin had abstained all three times. “Why is he complaining now that the land acquisition is over?” asked the former minister.