Speaking at a news conference in the city on Saturday Mr Jaitley said that elections for Karnataka Assembly are being held at a time when politics in India had become contentious.
“Apart from the prominent issues we have today, there is Chinese intrusion inside the Indian territory and the government is unable to take the country into confidence, as to how it intends to deal with this issue. Pakistan has been repeatedly indulging in provocative acts, despite warnings. We have a disturbed neighbourhood all over. The Parliament is paralysed, because we have two continuous acts where monumental corruption took place under the UPA government,” he said terming it as a 'management of the decline'.
Immoral policing
The Joint Parliamentary Committee, investigating the spectrum scandal despite majority of the members being of different views, comes up with a draft where it covers up for the whole scam. So, the UPA first indulges in corruption and then indulges in a massive cover-up, he opined.
The coal-block allocation scandal is still continuing to stare at the face of the UPA government, where even the investigation is being interfered with and ministers get access to the CBI status report. All these issues will have a prime place in these elections, he said.
“It is quite fashionable for people to use the phrase 'moral policing', but interference in the investigation of CBI is a clear case of immoral policing by the UPA government,” he said referring to the agency's status report on coal allocation scam which was allegedly 'shared' with higher officials and bureaucrats in the UPA government.
Responding to a query, he said that the CBI was an autonomous body, and that if the UPA government continued to ignore the reality on the coal allocation scam, then it was their 'misfortune'.
Faced our challenges
With regard to the maiden opportunity of ruling Karnataka, he said, “five years ago, we got an opportunity to govern Karnataka. We have grown quite rapidly in the state, faced our challenges and also learnt from experience. We preferred to stand by our ideals when faced by conflicts, and despite these challenges, we continued to serve the people of Karnataka. With schemes leading to growth in agriculture, irrigation, buoyancy in economy, increase in budget and improvement in infrastructure, we have gained popularity and we do hope we will be given opportunity to govern the state again.”
Sitting MLA and BJP candidate for Mangalore South constituency N Yogish Bhat, MLC Captain Ganesh Karnik and Goa state vice-president of BJP Dattaprasad Kholker were present.
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