Amit Shah Karnataka visitUnion Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday (January 28) urged the people to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to form the government with absolute majority in Karnataka by reposing faith in Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that the Janata Dal was in favor Every vote(s) will help Congress in the end and make it win.
Hitting out at the Congress and the JD(S) as “dynastic”, he projected the BJP as the only party working for the people, and asked the voters of Belagavi district, after which the second round of assembly constituencies in the state, to be held. is the largest number. Bengaluru, to ensure that the saffron party wins 16 out of 18 constituencies there.
“The people of Karnataka have to decide in April-May who they want to give the reins of Karnataka for the next five years. On the one hand, there are two parivarvadi (dynastic) parties – the Congress and the JD(S), while on the other there are patriots The party is BJP, which is trying to make India number one in the world under the leadership of Modi.
Addressing the BJP’s ‘Jan Sankalp Yatra’ rally, he said the JD(S) was planning to form government by winning 25-30 seats with the support of the Congress and impose a family rule on the state, while the Congress would come here. Satta has acted as an ATM for its Delhi high command and has pushed Karnataka into corruption.
He cautioned, “JD(S) and Congress may emerge as two parties, but I want to tell the people of Karnataka that every vote cast in favor of JD(S) will help Congress and make it Will win.” BJP has worked for all sections of the society and has made the country the fifth largest economy in the world.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi, senior BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa and state president Nalin Kumar Kateel were also present at the event.
Shah said that Congress and JD(S) can make poll promises, but only BJP can develop Karnataka and the country. Listing various pro-people and pro-poor programs of the BJP government, he asked the Congress and JD(S) what they have done for the poor.
Urging the people to vote for the BJP in the assembly polls, Shah said, “In the coming elections, keeping faith in Modi, let the BJP form the government here with full majority and ensure that Karnataka becomes the number one state in the country.”
“We have to bring a BJP government in Karnataka. The BJP aims to win 16 out of 18 seats in Belagavi district to form a government with absolute majority in the state,” he said.
With 27 assembly constituencies (28 including Anekal), Belagavi is the second largest district in the state with 18 seats, after Bengaluru Urban. In 2018, the BJP won 13 seats in Belagavi, and emerged as the single largest party with 105 seats.
Claiming credit for making Ram Nath Kovind, a Dalit, and Draupadi Murmu, a woman from a tribal community, the country’s president, the former BJP president said the party has worked for the welfare of Dalits and tribal communities.
He appreciated Bommai for installing the portrait of Savarkar, the Hindutva ideologue, in the Legislative Assembly Hall in Belagavi. Besides this, Shah lauded the Chief Minister for taking on the BJP government in Goa on the interstate Mahadayi river water issue and working to provide water to the dry areas of Karnataka.
He reminded former Congress president Sonia Gandhi about her speech in Goa in 2007, in which she had reportedly said that Mahadayi water cannot be diverted to Karnataka, as she also pointed out that the Congress manifesto for 2022 It was said that the party would ensure that Karnataka does not get a drop of Mahadayi water.
He said, “I want to tell you (people) that the BJP has given Mahadayi water to Karnataka by resolving the long-standing dispute between the two states and thus ensuring that the farmers of many districts here benefit.”
Accusing the Congress of the mistake of Jawaharlal Nehru, of nurturing Article 370 like a child for 70 years, the Home Minister said, “It should have gone away from J&K long back.” Finally, on August 5, 2019, by abrogating Article 370 of Modi BJP, Kashmir was permanently included in India.”
The Congress and JD(S) used to say that if Article 370 was removed, there would be a river of blood in Kashmir, he said, “Rahul baba (Rahul Gandhi), Siddaramaiah ji (Congress leader), leave the river of blood, someone didn’t even have the courage to throw a stone. BJP has tried to ensure that terrorist activities come to an end.”
(with inputs from agencies)
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