Describing the promise made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he will give a corruption-free government as hollow, B. Bhagwan Reddy, district secretary of SUCI, has said that the appointment of the former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa as State unit president of the BJP has exposed Mr. Modi’s promise.
“Mr. Yeddyurappa is facing several charges of corruption and nepotism; he even went to jail while serving as Chief Minister. Despite all this, the BJP has appointed Mr. Yeddyurappa as the party’s State unit president,” he said at a seminar to oppose the “anti-people policies” of the Union and the State governments organised by various Left organisations here on Sunday. Recalling another promise made during the election campaign by the BJP, Mr. Bhagwan Reddy said that the BJP has failed to bring back black money stashed in foreign banks.
“Where is that money, and why it has not been brought back to India? Let Mr. Modi answer the nation,” he said and added that the promised Acche Din are yet to come.
Mr. Bhagwan Reddy was also critical of the functioning of the Congress government in the State, accusing Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of weakening the anti-corruption watchdog Lokayukta by setting up the Anti-Corruption Bureau.
In her address, S. Varalakshmi, State secretariat member of the CPI(M), said that since the BJP government has come to power at the Centre, divisive politics on sensitive issues such as religion has been on the rise. She said that Mr. Modi has given a free hand to right-wing elements. “The Sangh Parivar, led by the BJP, is dictating what one should eat and what one should wear. Instead of focussing on core development issues, the BJP is playing mischief,” she alleged. She said that to defeat such communal forces that are bent upon breaking the social fabric of the country, people should get united and fight them in a democratic way. Ms. Varalakshmi said that unity was the only big weapon that the people had against these divisive elements.
Divisive politics on sensitive issues such as religion has been on the rise, says Varalakshmi
