Political climate favours BJP win in state polls: Javadekar
DH News Service, Bengaluru, Sep 17 2017, 2:19 IST
(From left) BJP leaders K S Eshwarappa, Jagadish Shettar, B S Yeddyurappa, Union ministers Prakash Javadekar and Piyush Goyal, National General Secretary Muralidhar Rao and Union Minister D V Sadananda Gowda at a party meeting in Bengaluru on Saturday. dh photo
Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday said the changing political scenario in the country will help the state BJP romp home with more than 150 seats in the Assembly elections next year.
Javadekar, who, along with Railways Minister Piyush Goyal, was recently appointed election in-charge and co in-charge for the Karnataka unit of the BJP, held a meeting with party MPs, MLAs and MLCs in Bengaluru.
Javadekar sought to compare the political scene during the previous Assembly elections in Karnataka (2013) to the present scenario. “In 2013, the UPA government ruled at the Centre. Today, the UPA government is nowhere in picture. The policies of the present NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi have struck a chord with the people. Besides, people are angry with the Siddaramaiah government for its maladministration and misgovernance. These factors will prove to be a win-win situation for the BJP in the 2018 Assembly polls,” Javadekar said.
He said crop loan waiver of up to Rs 50,000 announced by the state government is an eyewash and is not even sufficient to purchase “lollipops and chocolates”.
Earlier, the state BJP set a deadline of September 26 for Bengaluru Development Minister K J George to tender his resignation failing which the party has threatened to launch an indefinite “day-night” dharna.
The BJP leaders, led by party state president B S Yeddyurappa, staged a demonstration in Bengaluru demanding the resignation of George in the wake of the Supreme Court ordering a CBI probe into the death of DySP M K Ganapathy.
Ganapathy, just hours prior to his death last year, had accused George and some senior IPS officers of harassing him. “George should resign on his own or (Chief Minister) Siddaramaiah should drop him from his Cabinet by September 26, failing which we will launch an indefinite dharna,” Yeddyurappa told reporters.
Yeddyurappa also said that he will release documents that will “expose corruption at the highest level” in the Siddaramaiah government soon.
Senior leaders, including K S Eshwarappa, Jagadish Shettar, R Ashoka among others, took part in the meeting.