Don't request me, ask your brother to not contest: Eshwarappa tells Vijayendra
Shivamogga: In a strong rebuttal to B Y Vijayendra's plea for forgiveness and cooperation, rebel BJP leader K S Eshwarappa urged Vijayendra to refrain from requesting leniency and instead persuade his brother Raghavendra to withdraw his nomination from the Shimoga Lok Sabha constituency. Eshwarappa made these remarks while addressing the media in Shimoga on Sunday.
Challenging Vijayendra to convince his brother to retract his candidacy, Eshwarappa also called on the BJP state president to resign from his position. He questioned whether Vijayendra feared his brother's potential defeat and harbored aspirations of holding onto power indefinitely.
While reiterating his allegiance to the BJP, Eshwarappa asserted that the most severe consequence he faced for contesting independently would be expulsion from the party. He emphasized that unlike Yediyurappa, who had formed the Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP), he had not abandoned the party.
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Expressing frustration at Vijayendra's display of authority as the party president, Eshwarappa questioned the dominance exerted by Yediyurappa and his sons over the entire political landscape. Directing his remarks towards Vijayendra, he called for the BJP president to step down to alleviate the grievances of all concerned parties.
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Mamata demands PM's resignation over silence on Pak's 'threat' to strike Kolkata in future conflict
Bethuadahari (WB) (PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday asked why Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not raise Pakistan's threat to attack Kolkata, during his poll rallies in West Bengal a day earlier.
"You (PM) target Bengal during election rallies; but when Pakistan talks of attacking Bengal, you do not utter a word. You should resign," she said at a poll rally here in Nadia district.
"Why did the prime minister not raise the issue during his rally in Bengal? When Pakistan's defence minister says they will attack Kolkata, why didn't the prime minister say that 'we will take strong action'?" she posed a day after Modi addressed a poll rally in West Bengal's Cooch Behar.
"Just like we do not accept any threat to the country, we will also not take the threat to Kolkata lying down," she said.
Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Saturday warned India that it would respond with a strike in Kolkata to any “future misadventures". “If India tries to stage any false flag operation this time, then God-willingly, we will take it to Kolkata," Asif had said while talking to reporters at his hometown of Sialkot.
