Cong workers lay siege BSY’s house
Verbal duals between Cong-BJP workers
Bengaluru, September 20: Close on the heels of Chief Minister H.D Kumaraswamy’s statement that people would revolt against BJP if the latter tried to destabilize the coalition government in the state, hundreds of Congress workers laid siege the house of BJP state President B.S Yeddyurappa in the city on Thursday and expressed their ire.
In a sudden development, the Congress workers laid siege the house at Dollars Colony in the city and shouted slogans against Yeddyurappa, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra and the central government.
Verbal duals
Meanwhile, B.S Yeddyurappa was holding a meeting with the MLAs at his residence. At this time, the Congress and BJP workers engaged in verbal duals and reached a stage of scuffle each other. BJP MLAs MP Renukacharya, Vishwanath, Madalu Virupakshappa, Doddappa Gowda Patil, Harish Poonja, Ravikumar and Ayanur Manjunath made futile attempt to pacify the Congress workers.
Later, both the Congress and BJP workers exchanged heated arguments and shouted slogans against each others. The Congress workers tried to barge into the house of Yeddyurappa. As Renukacharya pushed the Congress workers, tension prevailed for some time.
The police who rushed to the spot dispersed the Congress and BJP workers and put barricades on the road leading to Yeddyurappa’s house and police security was beefed up.
“Corrupt Yeddyurappa who had been to the jail was the leader of Operation Lotus. Yeddyurappa’s unethical politics should be rejected. The Central government has been using the IT and ED to hound Congress leaders and they will not succeed”.
- Congress workers
“In the name of protest, Congress workers have behaved like goondas and Chief Minister Kumaraswamy is encouraging them. We have also grown up. We know how to give them the answer”.
- M.P Renukacharya, BJP MLA
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Stalin accuses Centre of trying to use women's quota as 'weapon,' slams EPS over delimitation
Chennai (PTI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has strongly criticised the Centre over the women's reservation and accused it of trying to use it as a "weapon" to tackle the opposition before taking up the delimitation exercise based on population.
"The Union government is not concerned about implementing reservations for women. If their concerns were genuine, they could have done it right away. Rather than doing that, the BJP-led Centre is thinking of using it as a weapon to tackle opposition and take up the delimitation exercise based on population," he told PTI in an interview.
"Hence, the women's reservation must be implemented immediately without showing delimitation as a reason," the DMK president added.
Expressing apprehensions on the proposed delimitation exercise, the CM said it was the DMK that raised the first voice asserting the rights of the state after realising that Tamil Nadu would be affected by the proposed exercise. He also attacked his rival and AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palaniswami over the delimitation issue.
Recalling efforts made by the DMK to raise the issue of population-based delimitation, he said an all-party meeting and a meeting of CMs under the auspices of the Joint Action Committee seeking fair delimitation were convened. It sought to freeze delimitation for 25 years and stick to it based on the 1971 Census population.
"We urged the union government that states which successfully implemented population control programmes must not be punished," he added.
The party came up with "Tamil Nadu poradum, Tamil Nadu vellum" (Tamil Nadu will struggle, Tamil Nadu will win) and this is DMK's stand, he said.
"However, Palaniswami, who is seeking votes for the entry of the BJP through the backdoor, has till date been mute over delimitation, and this is a betrayal of the people of Tamil Nadu."
