JOIN USIt will be BJP ideology vs Cong money in Assembly polls: BSY
The BJP on Sunday sounded the poll bugle at its state executive committee meeting in Bengaluru with party state president B S Yeddyurappa stating that BJP will strive to secure a “thumping majority” in the Assembly elections next year.
“The Congress is hoping to win the Assembly polls on the basis of money. The next elections will be a fight between the ideology of the BJP and the money of the Congress,” Yeddyurappa said at the meeting attended by around 600 party functionaries from across the state.
The former chief minister said the party will win a “resounding” majority in the Assembly polls as the people have rejected the policies of the ruling dispensation in the state. He said two internal surveys commissioned by the party had revealed that there was “overwhelming support” among the electorate for the BJP.
He said a large number of leaders from other parties will be joining the BJP three months ahead of the elections. “Let us welcome them with open arms. Tickets have not been promised to anybody. It will be decided by (BJP national president) Amit Shah,” he said. However, he did not reveal the names of the leaders joining the BJP.
BJP national general secretary in-charge of Karnataka P Muralidhar Rao said the party’s Vistaarak (out reach) programme was a tremendous success in Karnataka. “It is for the first time in Independent India that a mass contact programme on such a large scale was conducted by a political party,” he said. More than 26,000 volunteers criss-crossed the state to reach out to the electorate. Rao charged the Congress government with “looting” and “plundering” the state.
The day witnessed the executive committee meeting pass two resolutions, one condemning the “deteriorating law and order situation in the state” and the other on the “failures of the state government”.
BJP state general secretary and MP Shobha Karandlaje told reporters that the state government had failed to provide relief to farmers reeling under severe drought.
Grants provided by the Centre had remained unutilised. The state government was creating hurdles to prevent schemes launched by the Centre reach the people, she charged.
She accused Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of trying to divide society for electoral gains by raising the issue of providing a separate religion tag for Veerashaiva-Lingayat dharma.