Amit Shah's message to BJP: Target Siddaramaiah
BJP chief says Cong government’s performance has been lacklustre, calls for saffron party’s return to power
Gorta (Bidar): Is the BJP, which lost power in the state to the Congress in the 20143 assembly polls, getting ready to unsettle the Siddaramaiah government?
The answer is yes going by the utterances of BJP leaders during the function held here on Wednesday to lay the foundation stone for the martyrs memorial and for erecting a statue of Sardar Vallabhai Patel.
While heaping praise on the previous BJP state government in the state which was ousted because of the scams its leaders were involved in, BJP national president Amit Shah, called the performance of the Siddaramaiah government lacklustre. “Has this government launched any new schemes?. None. We lost the government in the state due to the scheming of Congress. If Karnataka has to progress, BJP must return to power. Make the state Congress-free,” he told party workers at a function to lay the foundation stone for a martyrs memorial and a statue of Sardar Vallabhai Patel.
BJP state president, Prahlad Joshi, for his part vowed to expose the “misdeeds” of the Siddaramaiah government. “Appreciating the disclosures of our party leader, Jagadish Shettar on denotification of land, Mr Shah has told us to go the whole hog in attacking the state government. So we will step up our fight against it,” he declared, also ridiculing the Chief Minister and his ministers for taking part in this year’s Hyderabad Karnataka Liberation Day celebrations when the Congress party had rejected the H-K Liberation Day.
“It was only after we decided to build the memorial and statue here did the Chief Minister come to Gulbarga to unfurl the flag,” he claimed.
Meanwhile, the celebration of Hyderabad-Karnataka liberation day held here on Wednesday was different from previous celebrations in more than one way.
The most notable feature was that for the first time a Congress Chief Minister and two prominent leaders from the region took part in the celebrations.
By participating in the celebrations Chief Minister Siddaramaiah became the first CM from the Congress to to so.
What is more significant was the participation of two Congress stalwarts -N Dharam Singh and Mallikarjun Kharge. Both Kharge and Singh, who scrupulously kept themselves away from the celebrations, despite hailing from the region for the fear of annoying Muslims, shared the dias with the CM besides exchanging sweets with each other.
Not only these two leaders but their sons-Priyank Kharge and Dr Ajay Singh, both legislators and District Incharge Minister Qamarul Islam took part in the event.