A plan to gift gold biscuits to 300 Karnataka lawmakers has appalled many. The gift has been proposed for the celebration of 60 years of the Karnataka state assembly or Vidhan Souda on October 25 and 26.
The state assembly secretariat has sent a budget of nearly Rs. 27 crores for the grand event to the Congress government, which says it was never looped in about the wildly exorbitant proposal.
The gold biscuits, each of 13 grams, are to cost Rs. 3 crore, according to estimates. The state secretariat’s proposal also includes silver plates as mementoes for its 5,000 employees.
Assembly Speaker KB Koliwad, who is believed to have planned the celebration, denies the gold biscuit proposal.
“We have sent a proposal…there are various things in it. But we haven’t sent a proposal to give gold biscuits”, he said.
