Karnataka polls 2018: BJP will win 130 seats, says Amit Shah

Bengaluru: At the end of his high voltage campaign in the state, BJP national president, Amit Shah on Thursday vowed to probe all “scams and misdeeds” of the Siddaramaiah government once his party comes to power in the May 12 poll.

Mr Shah, who spoke to reporters after a massive road show in Badami, said the Arkavathi  layout scam and every other scam  involving the CM and his cabinet colleagues would be investigated. “We will recover every single pie of the Karnataka people which has been misappropriated by the ruling Congress,” he asserted.

Alleging that Congress was making an all out effort to abuse the electoral process,  he claimed that the large number of ID cards, computer, printer and other material found in an apartment in R.R Nagar constituency, showed that it was trying to win the elections by hook or by crook. “But people have already decided to remove the Congress government,” he maintained, alleging that Mr. Siddaramaiah had ruined Karnataka’s image over the last five years.

“Karnataka’s development has come to a standstill like Bengaluru traffic. The largest number of farmers have committed suicide during the Siddaramaiah regime and Ministers, K.J. George, Roshan Baig and MLA Harris have become stumbling blocks for Bengaluru’s development,” he charged.

Confident that the BJP would form the next government under the leadership of its state chief, B.S.Yeddyurappa, he said the Lingayat strongman would serve his full term in the state and defended his announcement that he would hold his oath taking ceremony on May 17. “Even you (media) have said Yeddyurappa is  overconfident , but we will form the government with a full majority,” he declared.

Mr Shah ruled out the possibility of a post-poll alliance with JD(S) , claiming the BJP alone would win over 130 seats. He also maintained that the party would not admit mining baron turned politician, Gali Janaradhana Reddy, charged with illegal mining into its fold and claimed it had nothing  to do with  him even  now.   
Accusing the Congress of entering into an alliance with “terrorist outfits” like PFI and KFD, he said he was “ hundred percent sure” that the Chief Minister would be defeated both in Chamun deshwari and Badami by a huge margin.