A New Name. A New Charge. The Same Taxpayer Pays!
The Congress brand of governance in Karnataka has found its latest innovation: “Software Tax.”
GBA is now adding a “software charge” of ₹200 for residential properties and ₹1,000 for commercial buildings to the annually collected property tax.
What exactly are citizens paying for? Why should people separately fund the government’s software system? Where is the legal basis, cost breakup and public accountability?
Is this not another bill pushed onto taxpayers without a clear explanation? Is this not looting in broad daylight?
For @INCKarnataka and @DKShivakumar, every new excuse to generate money seems to end at the same destination: the taxpayer’s pocket.
Justify the levy or withdraw the charge!
#CongressTaxesKarnataka #CongressFailsKarnataka
SH35:
Today,Varthur residents got fed up and started filling deep potholes with bare hands, without any gloves, equipments. just Using the stones
@GBAChiefComm@GBAChiefComm@BECCUPDATES@MALimbavali@krishnabgowda please use our tax money and get SH35 potholes patched.
She is Arunima from Kerala, a solo traveller with 1.2 million Instagram followers. She believed Islamic countries were very peaceful and felt safe in a burqa. She travelled to Afghanistan and was detained for roaming freely as a woman.
Who helped her? Not Kerala’s Islamic circles, not leftist leaders, not Saudi habibis, and not even the Congress government. A BJP leader hated by many in Kerala..Suresh Gopi, helped her, and the Centre arranged everything. The Indian Embassy booked her ticket free of cost. Taxpayers’ money was spent on her so-called freedom.
She was still in a hijab at Kabul airport and on the flight. That is the level of secularism. even after facing Islamic laws.
₹5,500 crore has been spent on Bengaluru’s roads since 2023, yet Gunjur remains plagued by potholes and severe congestion. Yesterday, schoolchildren took 2.5 hours to travel just 4 km. How can the Government justify ₹5,500 crore when citizens still struggle on unsafe roads?
SH 35 land acquisition issues have been bandied as a reason for more than a decade. We have gone to the Space and back in less time.
Let’s not give that excuse @MALimbavali. Along with your husband @ArvindLBJP , you have represented Mahadevapura for 4 terms / 19 years.
Varthur - Gunjur stretch is a disaster that has been manufactured due to the apathy of our representatives and administration.
Today my daughter’s school bus took 2 hours to travel just 2 km in Varthur/Gunjur road.
For those 2 hours, I sat there as a parent feeling completely helpless.
I work hard. My wife and I pay lakhs in taxes every month. We took a huge home loan mainly so we could live close to our daughter’s school and give her a safer, easier childhood.
And yet, this is what “2 km from school” means here.
In the last year alone, we have seen a school bus topple, a woman suffer serious injuries after a fall, a biker almost lost his life after falling because of a pothole, and many more incidents that never become headlines.
Every day, ordinary people here tweet, email, complain, follow up and plead with authorities.
We are not activists.
We are not fighting for a political party.
We are parents, employees, families and taxpayers asking for one basic thing:
Please give our children a safe road to come home on.
Today, more than the traffic, what broke me was the feeling that despite doing everything a responsible citizen is supposed to do, I had absolutely no power to protect my own child.
If anyone knows how ordinary citizens of Varthur/Gunjur can reach someone with the authority to actually intervene, please help us.
@krishnabgowda@DKShivakumar@MALimbavali@ArvindLBJP@GBA_office@BECCUPDATES@ChristinMP_@RamSNarayan@GunjurCharan@RisingVarthur@BDAOfficialGok
#varthurisbleeding
🚨 This HIT-N-RUN Case shouldn’t be allowed to end with just a few phone calls.⛔️
#WATCH The driver was reportedly caught by the public and, admitted that he doesn’t have a driving licence and had started driving just five days ago. He also appears to be a minor.
If that is true, the bigger question is: WHO owns the vehicle, and who handed it over to an unlicensed driver?
The driver may be off the road for now, but unless the owner is identified and held accountable, he could be back behind the wheel by tonight or tomorrow.
🛑 Please share this video widely.
And the owner’s identity and details should be established through due process and made known through official action.
This isn’t just about one reckless driver. It’s about who enabled him to be on the road in the first place. @wftrps@DCPTrEastBCP@acpwfieldtrf@Jointcptraffic@ChristinMP_@Mohandas@republic@TOIBengaluru@vinodblru@anil_lulla@NammaBengaluroo
Yet another ex of interdept coordination & must be rare on earth.
We r soon expecting singapore & Japan corps visiting @GBA_office to get training. Gunjur has been turning major factor in becoming us #Vishwaguru soon.
#GunjurClubRd a monument.
Cc: @krishnabgowda@TOIBengaluru
@krishnabgowda
Life of a Techie in Whitefield-Varthur-Gunjur-ORR Quadrangle, around 5 lakh techies & 20,000 school kids suffering this daily.
It’s not even on GBA weekly review agenda. Video stretch is along Varthur Lake till Gunjur.
Please intervene.
@GBAChiefComm
What was this insane traffic man!? Bangalore is a daily endurance test! What the hell is this place even!?
Bellandur-Sarjapur-HSR is simply a simulation of urban collapse!
I’ve been watching an ambulance stuck in traffic for an hour and genuinely don’t know what you’re supposed to do in a situation like this especially when people have no civic sense about how to drive in peak rain!
There’s metro construction and apparently you just have to accept that something could fall on your head at any given moment!
Yes Bangalore has talent. Yes it has startups. Yes it has great weather sometimes. But what is the point of building the future when getting across the city feels like surviving some apocalypse?!
I have never honked this much in my entire life for an ambulance to cross and btw it took me like 1.5hr to just cross 7km!
INSANITY AT ITS PEAK!
Have some shame !! The deadlines have passed multiple times. Gunjur club road would be a world record - only possible in Bangalore in whole universe. CDP road is missing since decades. Varthur SH upgradation is happening since 20 years. Carmelaram ROB stuck since 5 years.
●Is Connectivity & Road Infrastructure in Areas like Varthur, #Bengaluru east, is beyond repair ?
●Answer lies in Major Office Buildings, Apartments & Schools, that had come up even on 20 feet road & absence of major roads.
●Merciless Road widening with demolition of bigger illegal Buildings shall work
● GBA needs to be exanded fast by atleast twice that of current one to include all these SCAM Panchayats.
@DKShivakumar@krishnabgowda@MALimbavali
📸: @TOIBengaluru@Hamsaa04