Udupi, Aug 4: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy-led state government and leaders of Congress party have manipulated the reservation for the municipal wards for Udupi City Municipal Council to ensure that strong BJP candidates could not contest the polls, alleged Udupi MLA K Raghupati Bhat.
Mr. Bhat, however, said that the BJP leaders were capable of facing the present reservation of wards. “The Congress was daydreaming about retaining power in the Udupi CMC. The voters would teach it a fitting lesson,” he told media persons.
The administration in Udupi CMC had collapsed. Taxes had been increased during the Congress rule in the CMC and people had to bear the burden of it. The issue of street lamps had remained unresolved. The promises made by the Congress in its manifesto had not been implemented, Mr. Bhat claimed.
Mattar Ratnakar Hegde, president of the district unit of the BJP, said that the BJP would win in all four urban local bodies – Udupi, Kundapur, Karkala and Saligrama – in the local body elections on August 29.
The party would collect the views of the leaders and people in every ward and select the candidates, he said.
Development activities had failed to take off in the State though the Congress-JD(S) government had come to power three months ago. The State Budget presented by Kumaraswamy had only given rise to voices of separation in different parts of the State. The BJP wanted a united Karnataka, Mr. Hegde said.
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