Addressing a scant gathering at Kannur comprising mostly of members of the minority community on Tuesday after the vehicle rally, Mr. Rai said that Congress is the only party which has given adequate opportunities and representation to minorities and weaker sections of the society in politics.
“No other party has made a person hailing from a backward community Chief Minister. No other party has given Leader of Opposition posts to persons hailing from backward communities. We have always upheld social justice”, he said.
Although the convention was aimed at exposing the wrongdoings of BJP, Mr. Rai did not miss out on targeting JD(S) too.
“People say that H D Kumaraswamy has spoken out in the open against Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat and warned him and that the Congress has done nothing. It was the same Kumaraswamy who once shook hand with him and the BJP that subscribes to the ideology of people like Kalladka Bhat. It was during Kumaraswamy's tenure that our own U T Khader was branded a terrorist with claims that he has SIMI links”, Mr. Rai said.
Predicting the downfall of BJP, Mr. Rai said that the failure of BJP government in Karnataka notwithstanding, political developments across the country are also pointers to the fact that BJP is weakening in the country.
“Look at Jharkhand. The BJP has become weak there. Prior to the Himachal Pradesh elections, in Uttaranchal too Congress emerged victorious. In the next three to four months, we will witness another BJP government lose power and that would be in Karnataka”, he said.
Congress leaders Vinay Kumar Sorake, U T Khader, Mayor Gulzar Banu, Ivan D'Souza, Kallige Taranath Shetty, Mithun Rai were present besides others.
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