Yeddyurappa should mind his language: Kumaraswamy warns
Bengaluru: I am warning. Mind your language. Retain the respect of your age. Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy warned senior BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa.
Kumaraswamy warned Yeddyurappa over his ‘father-son looters’ remark, which he has passed on Wednesday.
The Chief Minister said this while speaking to reporters after visiting the water resources minister DK Shivakumar, who is suffering from food poisoning, at Sheshadripura Apollo Hospital
Yeddyurappa is senior to me in politics as well as in age. It's better if he controls his words. Earlier in 2008, he had said, "my politics is to finish father-son, my aim is to imprison father-son." But who went to jail? Kumaraswamy jibed.
Now Yeddyurappa has stated that he will soon be sending DK Shivakumar to jail. He is telling ‘father and son are looters”. Kumaraswamy warned Yeddyurappa that he should stop talking lightly about father-son.
“Yeddyurappa, who has looted the state, is now accusing us. So far I am patient. I know what to do as the government is in my hands. So I want to advise Yeddyurappa to be cautious," he warned.
Kumaraswamy accused Yeddyurappa of plotting to hijack 18 MLAs, including Congress’ CS Sivalli, and JDS’ Suresh Gowda.
Kumaraswamy said that with DK Shivakumar he discussed the BJP’s political activities in the state.
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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."
