BJP leaders resign upsetting over Haladi’s working style
Udupi, May 4: Upset over the attitude of BJP candidate for Kundapura Assembly constituency and former MLA Haladi Srinivas Shetty, more than 20 leaders and workers including party former taluk general secretary Uday Kumar Poojari, Madamakki grama panchayat president Rajiv Kulal resigned from their primary membership of the party on Friday.
The BJP leaders belonging to the assembly constituency came to party district office here and submitted their resignation letters to party general secretary Kutyar Naveen Shetty. Accepting the resignation letters, he said that he would bring this to the notice of the district president, he said.
Later speaking to reporters here, Uday Kumar Poojari said that Srinivas Shetty has done nothing in the constituency and his working style is not acceptable. They were pained by the party decision to give ticket to Shetty. So, they could not work in favour of Shetty in the election. In view of this, they have decided to tender their resignation, he said.
Shetty is the MLA of Kundapur constituency for the last 18 years. But the development is zero. He is not speaking about the problems of the constituency in the Assembly session. When this is the situation, the BJP has given him the ticket again, he alleged.
After electing as the independent candidate, he had lodged false complaint against BJP workers and thus, cheated the party workers. They would take a decision on further course of action. They would remain silent in this election, he said.
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Sharad Pawar praised RSS after seeing how it burst fake narrative balloon of LS polls: Fadnavis
Nagpur, Jan 10: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar praised the RSS after realising how the outfit managed to overcome the fake narrative spread by the opposition in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The opposition had claimed BJP wanted to win 400 seats to change the Constitution and end reservations, a narrative which BJP leaders later claimed hit the party hard.
On Pawar praising the RSS recently, the CM said the MVA was successful in creating a fake narrative during the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
"When assembly polls were approaching, many people from diverse fields who are inspired by the RSS played their role and burst the balloon of this fake narrative. Sharad Pawar saheb is very intelligent. He would have certainly studied this aspect. He realised that this (RSS) is not a regular political power but a nationalist power. In any competition it is good to praise others," he added.
That is why Pawar may have praised the RSS, Fadnavis said.
Speaking at an interaction with senior editor Vivek Ghalsasi at Late Vilasji Fadnis Jivhala programme here, Fadnavis also said he had asked for organisational work when Eknath Shinde was made chief minister in June 2022, but senior leaders asked him to join the government.
He also said Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked him not to behave like an extra-constitutional authority in the government.
He said the decision to become deputy chief minister on the command of the party leadership earned him a lot of praise from the cadre.
After the massive mandate the ruling alliance received in the 2024 assembly polls, Fadnavis said people and party workers would not have been happy if the CM was not from the BJP.
Shinde himself agreed within minutes that the CM must be from the BJP, which itself got 132 seats and was close to a majority of its own in the 288-member assembly, he added.
On Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray meeting him during the winter sessions of the legislature in Nagpur, Fadnavis said he had announced he would not indulge in politics of revenge after becoming CM and all leaders responded positively to it.
On chances of the NCP (SP) and NCP coming closer or reuniting, Fadnavis said, "If you see the developments that took place from 2019 to 2024, I realised never say never and anything can happen. Uddhav Thackeray goes to some other party and Ajit Pawar comes to us. In politics anything can happen though I am not saying this should happen."
He praised BJP leader Arun Gujarati from whom he learnt patience, which he claimed was an important quality in politics along with the ability to take criticism.
In a lighter vein, he said, "I only get angry when I am hungry. If you see me angry then give me something to eat and my anger will go away."
