BJP’s defeat in elections due to your loose talk: Renukacharya targets Yatnal
Bengaluru: Former Minister M.P. Renukacharya launched a scathing attack on MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, blaming him for the BJP’s defeat in the recent by-elections.
Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, Renukacharya said, “The BJP lost the elections because of your loose and foul talk. State BJP President B.Y. Vijayendra has already demonstrated his organisational capabilities, but the party suffered losses due to your careless remarks. Are you bigger than Narendra Modi? The BJP’s efforts in the Waqf struggle were supported by Shobha Karandlaje and Pralhad Joshi, not you,” he criticised.
He went further, alleging, “Yatnal has been given a ‘contract’ by Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi to destroy the BJP. He is behaving like a Congress agent. His electoral success was the result of adjustments.”
Renukacharya also dismissed allegations of parallel meetings within the party, clarifying, “We are not conducting alternative meetings. We are travelling as part of the party’s platform. For the upcoming Davangere rally, we will invite national leaders. Our travel is focused on party organisation and its welfare.”
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BJP has history of ‘contradictory alliances’, says BK Hariprasad
Bengaluru: Congress MLC B. K. Hariprasad has launched a sharp attack on the BJP, accusing the party of hypocrisy over its criticism of alliance politics in Tamil Nadu.
In a post on X on Friday, Hariprasad said BJP leader B. L. Santhosh criticising the Congress party’s alliance politics in Tamil Nadu was “not just laughable, but the height of political contradiction.”
He said the Congress has always joined hands with like-minded parties to protect secular and democratic values in the country.
Hariprasad questioned the BJP over several of its past and present alliances across the country. Referring to Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Tripura, Bihar and Maharashtra, he accused the BJP of sharing power with parties it had earlier criticised.
He alleged that the BJP had aligned with separatist and corruption-linked political forces in different states for political gains.
“The BJP, which speaks against alliances today, should first look at its own political history,” he said, adding that the party’s record was full of “contradictions and changing stands.”
Hariprasad also accused the BJP of using central agencies such as the Enforcement Directorate, Income Tax Department and CBI as political tools to target opposition leaders, topple governments and influence electoral mandates.
He further claimed that the people of Tamil Nadu had strongly rejected the BJP and its ideology in the recent election.
“Congress forms alliances to protect the Constitution, secularism and national unity, while the BJP enters into alliances only for power,” he said.
