Yahya Hallare

Daijiworld Media Network - Bhatkal (SP)

Bhatkal, Nov 15: "Our chief minister, Siddaramaiah, who went to Dharmasthala after consuming non-vegetarian food, returned from the temple entrance. Although he went to Udupi four times, he never visited Lord Srikrishna temple. Because of him, Hindu religion, culture, customs and way of life have been hurt," said state BJP president, B S Yeddyurappa.

He was speaking after inaugurating the public meeting organized at Guru Sudheendra College ground here on the evening of Monday November 14 as part of BJP's 'Parivartana Yatre'. He accused Siddaramaiah of running government like Tughlaq Darbar.

"Money people have paid by way of taxes is being swindled. Lokayukta has been made inactive. By forming Anti Corruption Bureau, Siddaramaiah is getting cases faced by himself and his family members cleared. BJP will rise to power in the next election. We will re-investigate all cases against Siddaramaiah and see that he is punished for the wrongs. Before his death, deputy superintendent of police, Ganapati, clearly said that minister, K J George, was responsible for his death. Supreme Court has ordered for Central Bureau of Investigation probe in this case and BJP will fight till the minister resigns from the ministry. State Congress in-charge, Venugopal, faces rape case, which we will be following up in the parliament. Our aim is to drive Congress away from the country, and already only a handful of Congress MPs remain in the Lok Sabha. In the coming days, BJP will be winning elections in Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, and Karnataka," he said.

Yeddyurappa promised that the central government will sanction two lac crore budget for Karnataka,.He requested the people of the constituency here to bless BJP to enable it to realize the dream of former MLA, Dr U Chittaranjan. He recalled that BJP government in the state was the first to introduce farmers budget, Bhalakshmi scheme, bicycles for students, widow pension etc which were people-friendly measures.

'Terrorist activities funded from Bhatkal'

Yeddyurappa, in his speech, said that terorrist activities elsewhere in the country are getting financial backing from Bhatkal. He said that RDX used for bomb lasts was supplied from here. He asked everyone to be very careful about terrorism and accused the state government of failing to stop anti-national activities in coastal Karnataka.

MP, B Sriramulu, speaking on the occasion, accused Siddarmaaiah of wedging a divide between castes and celebrating Tipu Jayanti with an eye on getting power again. MLC, Srinivas Poojary, said that under Narendra Modi's leadership, India is emerging as a strong nation. Kumar Bangarappa too addressed the particpants.

Ananth Kumar Hegde and Vishweshswar Hegde Kageri launched veiled attack against local MLA, Mankalu Vaidya, asserting that BJP will wrest this seat in the next election and asked the local MLA to clearly hear the rising voice of BJP. Kageri said that there has not been any development in the area but flexes have been claiming that lot of development has been achieved under the current MLA. "All development claims are only on paper," he said.

Kumar Bangarappa pointed out that JD(S), which lured away the former minister, left him high and dry thereafter. That party always follows policy of marketing politics, he said, recalling that Prajwal Revanna had admitted that suitcase politics thrives in JD(S).

Union minister, Ananth Kumar Hegde, MP, Shobha Karandlaje, MLA, Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri, Tingale Vikramaditya Hegde, former minister, Shivananda Naik, Halappa, Bharathi Shetty, Tejaswini Gowda, V S Patil, former MLA, J D Naik, Sunil B Naik, Govinda Naik, Ishwar Naik and others were present at the dais.

BJP district president, K G Naik, welcomed. Pramod Joshi presented the programme.