Addressing media persons at a press conference at District Congress Office in the city on Wednesday, he said that the Congress had always condemned oppression of minorities, in the name of religion. The problem of communal tension in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts is a serious one, and there is a need for communal harmony in the region, he said.
The Congress leaders said that public meetings would be held at various places during the rally, wherein leaders of the Opposition in the Assembly and Council, Siddaramaiah and S.R. Patil respectively, along with various state and district Congress leaders would participate. The rally is also necessary to bring out the maladministration of the BJP in front of the people, he said.
He said that the date and structure of the rally will be announced in a curtain-raiser press conference in the coming days.
Tipu Sultan varsity
Speaking of the dispute over the proposal to establish a university named after Tipu Sultan, Dr Parameshwara said that if his party assumed power in the State after the Assembly elections, he would allow the establishment of the proposed Central University for minorities in the name of Tipu Sultan in Karnataka.
BJP legislator G Madhusudhan, who opposed the proposal and spoke ill of Union minister for minorities' affairs K Rahman Khan, should not have done so. Tipu Sultan was a freedom fighter who upheld all the traditions and the culture of the people. He was the most secular person at that point of time. As a responsible MLC, Madhusudhan should have welcomed the proposal of the establishment of a central university, he said, urging the State government to hand over land for the construction of the university, as per the Centre's directive.
Dissolve government
Taking on the BJP government, the KPCC chief said that the Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar had lost the majority and support of his own party members and hence had no morality to prepare the state budget for the entire financial year. He said that the CM should instead account for the money spent on various sectors like agriculture, irrigation, education and others.
“Show the balance sheet to people before preparing the budget, and reveal how much remains in the treasury. I'm sure none remains, as six months' salaries of the government teachers are still due. If money still exists, let them prove it,” he declared, urging the CM to dissolve the government.
Congress leaders such as AICC Secretary Vinay Kumar Sorake, KPCC General Secretary Ivan D'Souza, MLA U T Khader, B Ramanath Rai, Mayor Gulzar Banu, Moideen Bava, Mithun Rai and several others were present.
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