Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that people of the State have come to know of the BJP leaders’ tactics of “telling lies and instigating communal sentiments” to win elections.
He was addressing party workers at the launch of the election campaign in Hosapete on Saturday.
Training his guns on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for levelling “false allegations” against the Congress government in Bengaluru recently, Mr. Siddaramaiah remarked: “Mr. Modi should be ashamed of telling a bundle of lies and is unfit to continue as Prime Minister of the country.” Mr. Modi should have verified facts, particularly on crime rate, he said.
‘No respect for women’
Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress leader in the Lok Sabha, took a dig at Mr. Modi for showing scant respect for women.
Referring to the Prime Minister “mocking” senior Congress leader Renuka Choudhary, he said: “BJP and its leaders have been exhibiting only lip sympathy towards women and the suppressed and oppressed classes. But people of Karnataka are peace loving and keen on development. They will not accept the BJP’s principles and ideologies,” he said.
Protest
Dalits representing various organisations staged a protest near the venue demanding implementation of Justice A.J. Sadashiva Commission report on providing internal reservation among the Scheduled Castes. The police whisked away a few leaders after they staged a semi-nude protest.
