Belagavi, May 4: Union Minister Ananth Kumar Hegde stirred another controversy by terming Chief Minister Siddaramaiah as a begger, ghost and Ravana.
While campaigning in favour of party candidate at Sampagavi in Bylahongala taluk in the district on Friday, Hegde said that normally nobody would reside in the ghost house. So, all senior Congress leaders are leaving that party and coming to the BJP. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is like a begger, ghost and Ravana. Prime Minister Modi’s programmes were not reached this village because of the administration of Ravana in Karantaka, he said.
Siddaramaiah had issued a notification to take over some temples and mutts and thus targeted a community. Why he doesn’t show the courage of taking over the churches and masjids, he asked.
The Congress which has ruled the country for seventy years does not have the power to stay here. If it has the morality and concerns towards the country, let its leaders apply paint on the faces declaring that they would not lie in future, he said.
Besides dividing the religions, Siddaramaiah is devastating the country as well. Due to which, there is no unity. If all others are united, people like Siddaramaiah would not stay here, he said.
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Ranchi(PTI): The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has emerged as a surprise element in the Jharkhand assembly elections with its candidates leading in five of the six seats where the party is contesting, according to trends available on the Election Commission's website on Saturday.
RJD candidates in five assembly seats were leading over sitting BJP legislators.
In 2019, RJD had secured only the Chatra seat where its nominee Satyanand Bhokta won.
In Deoghar, RJD’s Suresh Paswan was leading by 19,581 votes over his nearest rival and BJP's sitting MLA Narayan Das after the third round of counting.
RJD’s Sanjay Prasad Yadav was ahead by 19,867 votes in Godda over BJP MLA Amit Kumar Mandal after the sixth round of counting.
In Koderma, RJD nominee Subhash Prasad Yadav, who was out on bail, was leading by a margin of 3,471 votes over BJP’s sitting legislator Neera Yadav.
Subhas Prasad Yadav, considered to be one of the close aides of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, was recently granted bail by the Supreme Court in a money laundering case.
Party’s Naresh Prasad Singh was leading by 5,159 votes after the fourth round of counting over BJP’s Bishrampur MLA Ramchandra Chandravanshi.
RJD's Sanjay Kumar Singh Yadav was also leading from Hussainabad by 8,213 votes after the fourth round of counting over BJP MLA Kamlesh Kumar Singh.
Party’s candidate Rashmi Prakash, however, was trailing from Chatra by 3,776 votes.
Bhokta did not contest the elections this time, and his daughter-in-law Prakash was given a ticket.