BJP does not know anything other than 'Operation' to come to power: CM Siddaramaiah
Vijayapura (Karnataka) (PTI): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday said the BJP does not know anything other than 'Operation' to come to power.
Taking a dig at former chief minister Jagadish Shettar and BJP state president B Y Vijayendra's statements that many Congress leaders will join the saffron party, the Chief Minister alleged the BJP knows how to buy MLAs by paying them money.
"They (BJP) don't know anything other than 'Operation'. You know the meaning of Operation? It means buying people by paying them money. They cannot come to power by winning the trust of voters. They just pay money (to the public representatives) and buy them," Siddaramaiah said.
Shettar recently returned to the BJP after spending less than a year in the Congress. The staunch RSS man had joined the Congress party when the BJP denied him a ticket in the Assembly elections last year.
The Chief Minister alleged that the BJP came to power twice in the past through 'Operation Lotus' when B S Yediyurappa and Basavaraj Bommai were the chief ministers.
According to him, the BJP in Karnataka has been coming to power through 'Operation' since 2008.
"When did the BJP get a full majority in the state? Did they ever win with absolute majority, be it in 2008, 2013 or 2018? Never. The Congress, on the other hand, won with a majority in 2013 and 2023. The Congress comes to power with people's mandate. They (BJP) come to power through 'Operation'," the Chief Minister alleged.
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Ruskin Bond hospitalised in Dehradun due to leg problem
Dehradun (PTI): Author Ruskin Bond has been admitted to a hospital in Dehradun due to a leg problem, a close friend of the writer said here on Sunday.
After visiting Bond at the hospital, well-known Dehradun-based publisher Upendra Arora said the elderly author was unable to walk properly, following which he was admitted to a private hospital here on Saturday.
The 91-year-old Bond, a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, lives in the Landour area of Mussoorie.
Arora said Bond is undergoing physiotherapy under medical supervision and is expected to be discharged from the hospital in two to three days.
"There is nothing serious," he said.
Bond has written more than 500 short stories, essays and novels, of which 69 books are for children.
He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra.
