Hubballi, Jan 13: Home Minister MB Patil ridiculed that “MLA Shamanur Shivashankarappa had a general store and was working as a middleman. But he has won the election after tearing the B form of somebody”.
Speaking to reporters at the Hubballi airport on Sunday, Patil said that Shivashankarappa should understand about his past and speak about others. He has built the Bapuji education institution by exploiting the others. He has been thinking about only his and his family’s development and speaking ill about others, he said.
“If you look at the birth records of Shivashankarappa, it’s mentioned as Hindu Lingayat. He will lose his respect if I speak openly. It is better if he stops his allegation now. I don’t care anybody. Anything could happen if I continue tirade against him”, Patil said.
Muslim population was more in his constituency and this time, the Congress has got majority Muslim votes in that constituency. Even in the forthcoming elections, the Muslims would vote for Congress.
The alliance of BSP and SP in Uttar Pradesh and Congress-JDS alliance in Karnataka has created fear in Prime Minister Narendra Modi due to which, he was speaking against the coalition government in the state, he said.
“There are people to fight for Lingayat religion and they will continue their fight. I will not have my influence on Lingayat religion. But Lingayat religion is our identity”, he clarified on a question.
“Police constables are the backbones of the police department. The Cabinet will take a decision to implement the recommendations of Auradkar Committee on improving the living conditions of the constables. The state government has sought help from ISRO and the Maharashtra government to trace the missing fishermen. I will meet the Home Minister of Maharashtra and discuss the issue”, he said.
Why Mallikarjun defeated?
‘Shamanur said that Vinay Kulkarni and Sharan Prakash Patil have lost the assembly elections as they have participated in Lingayat religion movement. Then, why his son Mallikarjun was defeated in the election? Where was his Veerashaiva force during election?’
- MB Patil, Home Minister
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Mumbai (PTI): Mahayuti alliance's new government in Maharashtra will be formed on December 5 with Devendra Fadnavis emerging as the frontrunner to become the next chief minister again, a senior BJP leader said on Saturday.
In the November 20 Maharashtra assembly polls, the Mahayuti alliance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) retained power, pocketing a whopping 230 of the 288 assembly seats. The BJP emerged as the single largest party, winning 132 seats, followed by Shiv Sena with 57 and NCP with 41 seats.
However, even after the announcement of poll results a week ago (on November 23), the formation of the government has been delayed as the tripartite alliance is yet to decide on who will be the next chief minister. Shinde, Fadnavis and Pawar met BJP president J P Nadda and Union minister Amit Shah late Thursday to discuss a power-sharing pact for the next government.
A key Mahayuti meeting scheduled on Friday was put off and likely to take place on Sunday now as caretaker Chief Minister Eknath Shinde headed to his native village in Satara district, delaying government formation further.
The BJP leader, who did not wish to be quoted, said the swearing-in of the new government will take place on December 5.
Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, who was the chief minister twice and deputy chief minister in the last government, is the frontrunner for the top post, the leader said.
Another senior BJP leader said the chief minister's swearing-in ceremony will take place at Azad Maidan in south Mumbai.
But before that, a meeting will be held on December 2 to pick the BJP legislature party leader, he said.
Caretaker CM Shinde has made it clear that he will fully support BJP leadership's decision to name the next CM, and that he won't be a hurdle in the process, while Ajit Pawar-led NCP has backed Fadnavis for the chief minister's post.
In the assembly elections, Congress-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) suffered a setback. The grand old party registered one of its worst performances in the state assembly polls after it won only 16 seats. Sharad Pawar's NCP (SP) could bag only 10 seats, whereas Uddhav Thackeray's (UBT) won 20.