BJP will not give ticket to Muslims as they do not believe in us: KS Eshwarappa
Bengaluru, Apr 2: Senior Karnataka BJP leader and former deputy chief minister K S Eshwarappa has said his party will not give tickets to Muslims to contest the elections as they do not believe in the party.
"We will not give...We will not give ticket to Muslims in Karnataka. Why? (because) you do not believe in us. If you believe and vote us, if you understand us, we will see," Eshwarappa said on Monday at Koppal.
He also alleged that the Congress party has only used Muslims as a "vote bank."
However, the senior leader from the Kuruba community Tuesday clarified that he was not a hater of any community including Muslims and his statement was in response to a specific question about Iqbal Ansari, a political leader from the district, getting ticket from the BJP.
"Correction:I'm not a hater of any community including Muslims. My statement was about a question asked will Iqbal Ansari get ticket from BJP?
Dear Media,
— Chowkidar K S Eshwarappa (@ikseshwarappa) April 2, 2019
Please dont add communcal
Colors to my statements.
Correction: I am not the hater of any community including Muslims. My statement was about a question asked about will "Iqbal ansari" get ticket from BJP?
Please dont try to twist my statement about an individual.
Whenever a new person joins he is not given any post,he has to work hard and earn the post, similarly I had mentioned about Iqbal Ansari," Eshwarappa tweeted, reacting to a media report on his statement.
"Dear Media, Please don't add communal Colors to my statements.
My statement was about a question asked about will Iqbal Ansari get ticket from BJP? Please don't try to twist my statement about an individual," he said in another tweet.
Karnataka will go to Lok Sabha polls in two phases, 14 constituencies each, on April 18 and 23.
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Trump tells Fox News he's no longer sending Witkoff, Kushner to Pakistan for Iran talks
Islamabad (AP): President Donald Trump says he told top US envoys not to travel to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran, telling Fox News that "they can call us anytime they want.”
In a brief phone interview Saturday, Trump told Fox News that he told US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner “you're not going to be making any more 18 hour flights to sit around talking about nothing.”
Trump also said of the US side “we have all the cards.”
His comments came after the White House said Friday that Witkoff and Kushner would be heading to Pakistan for another round of negotiations with Iran.
