BJP will win 130 seats in K’taka: Shah

As  the fiery campaign ends for the Karnataka Assembly polls to be held on Saturday BJP national president Amit Shah has predicted a win for his party and said they would get at least 130 seats in the 224 member House. Addressing a Press conference in Bengaluru on Thursday hours before the election campaign comes to an end master strategist of the party said Lingayat strongman Yeddyurappa will be the next Chief Minister of the party. He slammed congress Government led by Siddaramaiah for the failure of law and order.

He said  “Law and order have seen a downfall in Karnataka. More than 24 workers of BJP and RSS were brutally killed in the state and the Congress considers it a part of politics. No efforts were made to nab the culprits”.

Countering congress president Rahul Gandhi on farmers issue  he  accused the Karnataka government of not doing anything for the farmers and said, “they are not even ready to give answers for their failure.”

Talking about the recovery of nearly 10,000 voter IDs from an apartment in Bengaluru, Shah said, “The Congress is trying to win elections with undemocratic ways. Recovery of voter ID cards in Rajarajeshwari Nagar shows how desperately the Congress wants to win the election. I want to alert those whose fake IDs have been made, that don’t fall in Congress’ trap and disturb polls.”

BJP chief said  during his more than 50,000 km-long journeys  criss crossing the State found people’s anger against ruling congress government and against Siddaramaiah. He said  “In the last five years, more than 3,500 farmers in Karnataka have committed suicide. That is a 173 percent rise in the farmers’ suicide rate. All the development schemes are stuck like the Bengaluru traffic,” he added. Shah said there was anger in the public against the Congress’ state government, on the other hand, there was increasing “affection and liking” for  Modi.

Shah said that he got a chance to experience the people’s anger against the Siddaramaiah government. He predicted that the Congress chief ministerial face will lose elections from both Chamundeshwari and Badami.

Meanwhile Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that his government’s focused on bringing glory back to Karnataka. “We have come a long way from being the most corrupt state in 2010 to become the investment capital of India by 2018,” he said.

JDs Chief HD Kumaraswamy who is expected to be the kingmaker or a king himself lashed out at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi for his remarks on JDs and said he does not need a secular identity certificate from Rahul Gandhi.

The high voltage campaign for the May 12 Karnataka assembly elections have come to an end. The Karnataka elections are seen as a preamble to the 2019 elections and party’s are hoping to make in roads into it.