Stark contradictions and U-turns within BJP
In the last assembly elections,the BJP met a miserable defeat owing to its own party image. Congress wasn’t even responsible for where BJP had found itself. The BJP’s high command in Delhi and leaders at local level had posed massive challenges to Yeddyurappa, who was not allowed to discharge his duties. The government was resting on the money power bolstered by the Reddy brothers who were another league of troublemakers altogether. They resorted to blackmailing Yeddyurappa at every given opportunity. The dissidents often went to Delhi and complained against their CM BSY. And all this finally ended with BSY having to relinquish the CM’s seat. The only priority for the BJP ministers after this was to loot the state. Many ministers were caught carrying out acts of corruption and were even caught in the act. Finally, the BJP government fell after Justice Santosh Hegde submitting a report on unchecked illegal mining in the state. After Yeddyurappa was forced to step down,The BJP government gave the state two chief ministers such as Sadananda Gowda and Jagadish Shettar. Not only that, there were even two deputy chief ministers too. The assembly hall because infamous for the legislators watching porn films when the session was on.
Speaker K G Bopaiah flouted the rules and BJP breathed a temporary end with Yeddyurappa deciding to launch a new party, KJP or Karnataka Janata Paksha.
Today as we get close to elections, BJP is desperate to assume a new avatar.Like the mighty phoenix, It wants to rise from the ashes and come to life. It needs a brand new identity. But then why would people accept a party that they roundly rejected last time? They could have, only if the current Congress government had misruled the state or had not attended to people’s needs and requirements. CM Siddaramaiah has given most significant welfare programmes to people. Hence, the Congress government has gone to people with Siddaramaiah as their leader.
Though it was inevitable, and also desirable for the BJP to go to seek people’s mandate with new faces and fresh manifesto, the party has lost its plot by projecting the same leader the people had rejected last time. The current BJP has disappointed their own workers.
When BSY formed KJP, the same leaders within BJP had criticized him to no end. Today, this job of criticism need not be done by the Congress. BJP itself is being unfair to its own roots. If people remember the past and go over the criticism the leaders had made against each other, this party would definitely bite the dust in the coming days. The infamous Reddy brothers who were responsible for the collapse of the order in the BJP government, are being considered in the top ranks of the party again. Unfortunately, our own Prime Minister Narendra Modi is being seen with the corrupt Reddys pandering around him. Janardhan Reddy had even approached the Supreme Court to seek permission to canvas on behalf of the party he earlier belonged to.
Basically, BJP has gone to people with the same stains that existed earlier. And the party hopes to make a comeback too! That’s some ambition, really. The leaders seem to be thinking Modi’s jibes and sarcasm will win them the votes. But then this is a costly lesson the party would learn at the earliest that this way, people will never buy their version. Even their manifesto does not say anything new. Congress at least had made a solid effort in ensuring their manifesto consisted of deliverable promises and the party completed its own assurances. The BJP which had ridiculed Indira Canteens in the beginning, has now mentioned a canteen on such lines for poor people in its manifesto. So will people have to choose BJP only so that the scheme names can be changed? BJP has been very sternly against loan waiver of farmers. The state government did its part in waiving off the loans. But the government at the centre flatly refused to waive off the farmer loans. Now in its manifesto, BJP has assured farm loan waiver. On one hand, BJP encourages dairy farming and on the other, they have a law to protect the cows. The party is filled with contradictions from top to bottom over such matters. There is a ban on cow slaughter in some states of BJP rule, whereas some other states and leaders of the party have clearly made statements supporting protection of cows and total ban of cow slaughter. As of now, confusion is the only state BJP is in irrespective of whether it wins other states or not. And this could even mark the end of Yeddyurappa era too.
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Congress gave religion-based quota through backdoor in Karnataka, wants to do it everywhere: PM Modi
Sagar (MP), Apr 24: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday accused Congress of reducing the quota for the OBCs in Karnataka by putting Muslim castes in the same category, and claimed that it plans to replicate this across the country.
Speaking at an election rally in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh, he dubbed the opposition party as the "biggest enemy of the OBCs", and said the Bharatiya Janata Party needed to win more than 400 seats in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections to save the quota granted to the Other Backward Class, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
In the past, Congress provided reservation on the basis of religion which India's Constitution does not allow, and also promised the same in its 2009 and 2014 manifestos, Modi said.
"Once again Congress has given reservation based on religion through backdoor in Karnataka by putting all Muslim castes along with the OBCs. By doing so, it has snatched a big chunk of reservations from the OBC community. Congress indulged in this dangerous game which will destroy your generations. It is the biggest enemy of the OBCs,” he said.
In 2004, Congress had given religion-based reservation and thus stabbed Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, the architect of the Constitution, in the back, Modi said.
The opposition party played a trick in an "illegal manner" when it added Muslim castes in the OBC category, and in the process took away the rights of the OBCs, he alleged.
Further, Congress wants to implement this formula in the entire country, the prime minister alleged.
"The Constitution clearly says that no one will be given reservation on the basis of religion. Babasaheb Ambedkar himself was against reservation on the basis of religion. But Congress had made a dangerous resolution of (providing) reservation based on religion years ago. Various tactics are being adopted to fulfill this resolution. They are playing their game by deceiving the country's people," Modi said at the rally.
He also accused the opposition party of planning to curtail 15 percent quota of SCs, STs and OBCs, and provide it on the basis of religion.
The last time the Congress regime in Karnataka provided reservations based on religion, the subsequent BJP government scrapped it, he said.
"Elections will come and go, but this dangerous game of snatching reservations of OBCs, Dalits and tribals should be ended,” Modi added.
The prime minister also claimed that the opposition party hates the Constitution as well as the "identity of India," and that was why it was doing everything that "weakens the country and its credibility."
Some people were asking why he had given the slogan "Abki Baar, 400 Paar", the prime minister said.
"To save the reservation of SC, ST, OBCs forever, more than 400 seats are needed,” he said.
Congress' "hidden agenda" was now out, the PM said, claiming that it had said it would impose inheritance tax on coming to power.
"The wealth you have saved by working hard and enduring hardship will be looted after the formation of the Congress government,” he said, adding that it also showed how disconnected the party was from the country's social values and sentiments of Indian society.
Congress had no idea of Indian family values, Modi said, adding that people save assets for their children, grandchildren and next generations by spending their own lives in hardship, but the opposition party wants to plunder these assets earned over generations.
"Jindagi ke saath bhi loot and Jindagi ke baad bhi loot (looting people while they are alive and looting after they are dead)," is the Congress' mantra, and it wants to give these assets to its "vote bank," the prime minister said.
He also took swipes at Congress for not attending the consecration ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya and accused it of calling Lord Ram a fictional character.
The BJP has fielded Lata Wankhede from the Sagar Lok Sabha seat while the Congress' nominee is Guddu Raja Bundela. Polling will be held in the constituency in the third phase on May 7.
