Will contest Lok Sabha polls if High Command permits: Ramanath Rai
Bantwal: I am ready to contest in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections if high command permits, says former minister B. Ramanath Rai.
Addressing a press conference at the party office on BC Road today, he said, "I am a loyalist to the party and committed to the High Command’s decision. The party is preparing for the parliamentary elections, will contest if it gives the ticket.
The Congress government led by Siddaramaiah had approved all the projects I had taken for Bantwal. Work would begin soon after completing the tender process," he said. Administrative sanction has already been given for the second stage underground drainage work with the estimated cost of Rs. 56 lakh. Now, only minor works are pending.
“Ramanatha Rai has never neglected works. I have worked for all people in the Bantwal assembly constituency. But a smear campaign against me has not ended yet,” he alleged.
Illegal sand mining is continuing from past 15 years at the Mullarapatna Bridge area. Now the bridge is collapsed. The illegal sand mining was in place during the BJP government. Everyone knows who is behind the illegal mining," Ramanath Rai asserted.
Party leaders BH Khader, Abbas Ali and others were present at the press conference.
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Devendra Fadnavis plays video of Islamic scholar at Pune rally, harps on 'vote jihad'
Pune, Nov 16: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis continued to raise the pitch on "vote jihad" by playing a video of Islamic scholar Sajjad Nomani at a poll rally in Pune's Bhosari area on Saturday.
It is being said that a person who votes for the BJP must be ostracised, Fadnavis claimed.
"If these people are trying to do vote jihad, if they are saying they will destabilise the government through vote jihad, then you will also have to do dharmayudh of votes," Fadnavis said.
"If these people dream that they will come to power with the help of votes from one community in the land of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, then you will also have to come to the battlefield," he said in a swipe at the MVA.
