BENGALURU, Sept. 15 -- Chief minister DK Shivakumar has held up US President Donald Trump's proposal to give $5,000 to every adult American citizen as an example of how the welfare model developed by the Congress government in the state was gaining international recognition.

Speaking at the KPCC office during a former BJP MLA NL Narendrababu's induction into the Congress, Shivakumar claimed the government's guarantee schemes had established Karnataka as a model for other states and were now being echoed in Trump's proposal.

"Opposition parties said guarantee schemes could not be implemented. But today, because of the guarantees, we have become a model for the country. Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and other states have copied the...