Udupi, Jun 3 Congress leader and MLC Ivan D’Souza has alleged that both the BJP and JD(S) were giving inducements to teachers, who are the voters of the South West Teachers’ Constituency for the Legislative Council elections.
Addressing presspersons here, Mr. D’Souza said that he would lodge a complaint with the Election Commission on this issue as it was against the Model Code of Conduct. “While the BJP was giving gifts such as bags to the teachers, the JD(S) was giving sumptuous meals (Baad Oota) to them. This was wrong,” he said.
Mr. D’Souza said that the Congress had lost both seats to the Legislative Council by a small margin last time. It was prepared for the polls this time. The Congress candidate for the South West Graduates’ Constituency was Dinesh S.P., while its candidate for the South West Teachers’ Constituency was K.K. Manjunath.
Though the BJP had won both these successively, it had done little to address the concerns either of the teachers or the graduates. The Narendra Modi government had said that it would create two crore jobs in a year, but so far, in the last four years, it had created 3.5 lakh jobs. The Siddaramaiah government, however, had created 4.5 lakh jobs. It had also improved the lot of teachers, Mr. D’Souza said.
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