Congress incapable of stopping BJP's march: H D Kumaraswamy

JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy appealed to the Muslim community on Sunday not to believe the Congress, whose leaders were saying that voting for the JD(S) was akin to supporting the Congress. He said the latter was not capable of preventing BJP from coming to power.

He criticised the two national parties as two faces of the same coin and said they were creating a gulf between Hindus and Muslims, in the coastal region especially, for electoral gains.

Kumaraswamy said the Siddaramaiah government had taken loans amounting to lakhs of crores of rupees but had nothing to show for development.

The JD(S) leader said the government claims to have spent Rs 58,000 crore for irrigation, but water had not flowed to the farmers' fields.

He said the government had spent Rs 1,000 crore on advertisements, at Rs 7 crore a day, all about projects that had only received approval and whose works were in progress.