After Assembly elections in K’taka BJP everywhere and Congress nowhere – Prakash Javadekar
Udupi: Union HRD minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in-charge for the Karnataka Assembly elections, Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday, January 23 said that the BJP will form the next government in Karnataka. Rejecting claims that this time it would be a hung Assembly in the state, he said that the people would vote the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government out of power for its divide-and-rule policy and cases of corruption.
The minister addressing the party leaders meet at Hotel Kidiyoor said that the BJP national president, Amit Shah, wanted the party to win over 150 seats in the 2018 Assembly elections in the state, he said its aim was to reach every booth in Karnataka and connect with the people. Javadekar urged party leaders and workers to highlight the performance of the Modi government.
Currently, the BJP has governments in 19 states. With victory in the upcoming elections in north-eastern states of Tripura, Mizoram and Meghalaya, the tally will go up to 22. After the victory in Karnataka, the number of BJP-ruled states will go up to 23. The situation in the country will be like “BJP everywhere and the Congress nowhere”.
He alleged that instead of introspecting, the Congress was taking refuge in communalism and that it was hand in glove with Kerala’s Popular Front of India (PFI), which he dubbed as a terror organisation.
Instead of booking them, the Siddaramaiah government is withdrawing cases against these people. The Congress has withdrawn 155 cases lodged against 1,600 PFI workers. It is also engaged in alliance talks with the PFI-affiliated political organisation, the Social Democratic Party of India, he said.
Accusing the Congress of indulging in “vote bank” politics, he said that the Karnataka government celebrated the birth anniversary of Tipu Sultan but did not celebrate Swami Vivekananda’s birth anniversary.
Claiming that the law-and-order situation had collapsed in the southern state, he said, “See the cases of scholar MM Kalburgi, journalist Gauri Lankesh and the 24 BJP workers. Not a single case has been cracked so far. Women are unsafe in the state. Farmers are in distress and are committing suicide every day”.
The Congress is losing the plot. The common man and farmers are angry in Karnataka and we are sure that we will clinch an unprecedented victory (in the upcoming polls), he added.
It is the Congress whose policy is to divide and rule. In Karnataka too they are dividing society on the basis of caste and religion. We are uniting society. Their formula is divide and rule. Our formula is to unite and prosper. Honest officials are being persecuted and harassed in Karnataka. DK SP Sudheer Reddy who worked strictly against the congress sand mafia was transferred. Efficient DC of Hassan Rohini was also transferred for her honesty.
Speaking about Rahul Gandhi’s temple visits, he said that they were purely for political gain. The biggest event in his career as a politician has been his ascension to the post of president of the Congress. On that day, he did not visit any temple in Delhi. Therefore, what he did in Gujarat was an election gimmick. People understand who is doing political pilgrimage and whose faith is genuine, he said.
Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Shobha Karandlaje, Mangaluru MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, MLA Sunil Kumar, BJP state secretary Thingale Vikramarjuna Hegde, State BJP leader Uday Kumar Shetty, Udupi district BJP Chief Mattar Rathnakar Hegde were also present.
