Managluru, Jun 26: Karnataka State BJP chief President Pralhad Joshi has strongly defended scam tainted former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and called Siddaramiah an arrogant chief minister.
The BJP leader, who was in the city on Thursday, said the Congress government in the state has been following the politics of vengeance, unable to digest party’s onslaught against it.
He said that filing of cases against senior party leader and former Yeddyurappa was nothing but politics of vengeance.
“We will fight these cases legally and politically,” he said.
He said Mr Siddaramaiah is becoming more arrogant as the days pass by. When the opposition parties questioned the need for holding Monsoon legislature session in Belagavi as well as Bengaluru, Mr. Siddaramaiah reportedly said that he need not listen to opposition parties,” Mr. Joshi said.
Mr Joshi said the BJP would launch a State-wide protest against the Congress government on June 27. “We will hold a mega rally in Koppal demanding that Minister for Minor Irrigation Shivaraj M. Tangadagi be dropped,” he said.
Mr Yeddyurappa, Jagadish Shettar, K.S. Eshwarappa would attend the rally ‘Tangadagi Hatao, Koppal Bachao,’ in which more than 10,000 people are expected to participate.
Attacking the Congress government on various counts, Mr. Joshi told presspersons here that the law and order situation in the State in general and in Koppal in particular has collapsed.
On the sugarcane farmers’ issue, Mr. Joshi said the government, ever since coming to power, has utterly failed to get fair price to the growers.
“More than Rs. 1,000 crore is due to farmers for the 2013-14 crushing season. Now, it is the third crushing season. Yet the government is unable to get factories pay to farmers,” he said.
It has taken the “tough” step of seizing sugar stocks in defaulting factories only after BJP upped its protest, Mr. Joshi said.
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