Bengaluru, May 18:  Amidst the strategies of Congress-JDS and BJP to get the power in the state, an audio clip, said to be in the voice of Janardhan Reddy, offering position and money to Congress MLA Basana Gouda, has gone viral in the social media.

In this audio, Reddy claimed to have the backing of BJP president Amith Shah. The discussion between two people goes on like this: “old one…it was happened in bad time. Forget it. National president will directly speak to you. Ask what you want. Want power? Ask it. You should grow hundred times. Shivana Gouda Nayak who believed in me joined BJP and improved. You can earn till end as an MLA. Even Raju Gouda was also improved from me. It was happened during our bad time. You can become a minister now. I’ll make arrangement to speak one to one with the party president. You can make property 100 times more than what you have now”, it is said.

But it is said that Basana Gouda has denied it smoothly saying “Sorry..They have given me the ticket when I was in last position. At this situation, I would not betray. I have respect on you”.

 

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Cooch Behar (WB) (PTI): Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday alleged the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre was using the proposed amendment to the women's quota law in Parliament as a front for the Delimitation Bill that would "break the country into pieces".

The TMC will fight this Central government's move at every step, she asserted at her party's poll rally here.

The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill to tweak the women's quota law, along with the Delimitation Bill and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, to implement the proposed amended women's quota law, in the Union territories of Delhi, Puducherry and Jammu and Kashmir, were introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.

According to the Constitution amendment bill, Lok Sabha seats will be increased to a maximum of 850 from the current 543 to "operationalise" the women's reservation law before the 2029 parliamentary polls, following a delimitation exercise based on the 2011 Census.

Seats will also be increased in state and Union territory assemblies to accommodate 33 per cent reservation for women.

Opposing the Centre's move, Banerjee alleged that "the BJP brought the Delimitation Bill while keeping the women's reservation bill at the front".

"The BJP is trying to increase the number of seats in the Lok Sabha to nearly 850 through the Delimitation Bill. It will break the country into pieces," the TMC supremo said.

She also alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not speaking the truth about the development of north Bengal at a BJP rally last week.

"The prime minister said nothing was done for the development of north Bengal. But we spent Rs 1.72 lakh crore on the development of the region," Banerjee said and asked Modi to cross-check data before making such remarks.