Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah slams Narendra Modi, claims Karnataka ahead of Gujarat, and calls BJP a product of corruption

by Guest Wed Apr 09, 2014 11:00 am

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said the Congress was against Narendra Modi becoming the prime minister as he was responsible for the massacre of over 2,000 people following the Godhra train burning incident.

Campaigning for party candidate Lakshmi Hebbalkar at Savadatti in Belgaum Lok Sabha constituency on Tuesday, Siddaramaiah said Modi as the chief minister of Gujarat had failed to contain the violence in the wake of the Godhra incident. He should have stepped down the very next minute, but he continues to be at the helm and has not even repented for the killings. A person with such a track record cannot take all the sections of people along, he said.

“The BJP must not come to power as its prime ministerial candidate is not known to be a man of peace,” he said.

Siddaramaiah said the BJP manifesto had nothing new in it. Since the era of Jana Sangh, they have been propagating the construction of a Ram temple at Ayodhya, abrogation of Article 370 that gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir, and favour a Uniform Civil Code. The BJP is only repeating the Jana Sangh agenda through its manifesto, he said.

“Modi, a hardcore RSS cadre, is propagating Hinduism. We too are Hindus…We are not from an alien land. The Congress has been taking the Hindus, Muslims, Christians and all sections of society along it. The party has been following secular principles, while the BJP is sowing the seeds of poison in society,” he alleged.

Questioning the achievements of the NDA government under former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Siddaramaiah said the regime had not implemented programmes for the uplift of the weaker sections.

“Modi too doesn’t respect the weaker section, but he speaks for industrialists and capitalists. He has been asking the people for 60 months to prove himself, but he will destroy the country,” he said.
“Karnataka is ahead of Gujarat in industrial development. We do not want the Gujarat model in the State. In Gujarat, 55 per cent of women and 41 per cent of children are malnourished. We do not want that in our State,” he said.

http://www.bhatkallys.com/news-regional/modi-man-peace-says-siddaramaiah/

by Guest Wed Apr 09, 2014 11:02 am

MYSORE: Taking on Narendra Modi's assertion that corruption runs deep in Congress's blood, the Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said the BJP is a product of corruption.

Referring to Modi's jibe at the Congress during his rally on Tuesday, Siddaramaiah took on his Gujarat CM. "Modi should know that former CM B S Yeddyurappa was jailed on charges of corruption. Former minister G Janardhan Reddy is still in jail for illegal mining," he said during the Congress president Sonia Gandhi's election rally at the Maharaja's College Grounds from where Modi had launched a tirade against his party 24 hour before.

You are accusing the Congress of corruption when you are a product of graft. This is ridiculous. You should know that your party leader Reddy will not come out of jail, he said. Modi didn't appoint Lokayukta for ten years, he stated arguing that it is the Congress which is fighting against graft and pointed at the Right to Information to buttress his point.

The BJP is falling back on its favorite issues, Siddaramaiah said pointing at the BJP manifesto promising Ram Mandir at Ayodhya and uniform civil code. "This is an indication of malicious intention of the saffron party, which will lead to bloodbath. The BJP is seeking to promote communalism," he stated.

The party's Mysore candidate Adagooru H Vishwanath accused the BJP of taking assistance of RSS for campaigning. "The battle here is not between the Congress and the BJP but between the Congress and the RSS," he stated. He also took objection to Modi's claim that Mysore's tourism potential is untapped and the city lacks infrastructure. The Congress-led UPA government pumped in crores of rupees for the development of the city. But the BJP government looted it by indulging in corruption, he stated.

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Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah slams Narendra Modi, claims Karnataka ahead of Gujarat, and calls BJP a product of corruption

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah slams Narendra Modi, claims Karnataka ahead of Gujarat, and calls BJP a product of corruption

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