You cannot fool people with speech: Siddaramaiah lashes out at Modi
‘Get recharge for Lok Sabha poll’
Bengaluru, July 21: “Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a dramatist. I have never seen such a dramatist. But he cannot fool the people with his rosy words for a long time. Because, people want ‘kaam ki baat, not mann ki baat’”, said former chief minister Siddaramaiah.
Making a scathing attack on BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a KPCC office-bearers meeting here on Saturday, Siddaramaiah said that “BJP does not have an ideology. It blows the emotional issues out of proportions and create communal violence to get political mileage. The BJP has been doing the same for years”, he said.
Defeated due to false propaganda
The Congress tasted the defeat in the Assembly election due to false propaganda of the BJP. In percentage of votes, the Congress was much ahead of the BJP. But the Congress did not get more seats in the election. Do not disappoint from the defeat in the election. Get recharge yourself and prepare for the Lok Sabha election. Prepare yourself for the Lok Sabha elections from today as the objective of the party was to defeat the BJP. The previous Congress government had introduced various pro-people programmes. But the BJP had taken up the Hindutva issue than development and it helped the saffron party, he said.
This Lok Sabha election would be different. Congress workers should educate the people on what was the promises of the Narendra Modi government and what did they do in the last five years. The Congress government in the state had worked for the welfare of all sections of the society. But the BJP does not believe in social justice. It was only Congress which advocate social justice, Siddaramaiah said.
The Narendra Modi government had done injustice to the farmers in the last five years. The Prime Minister did not show the courtesy to give clarifications to the letters from the state. All central government programmes were bogus. So, the party workers should educate the people about the programmes announced by the BJP and implemented in the last five years, he said.
Modi had termed the Congress government as percentage government. But he did not speak a word about Lokpal Bill. BJP was a curse to the society. It was the objective of the Congress to defeat the BJP in the Lok Sabha election, he said.
Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwar, KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao, State Incharge KC Venugopal, KPCC working president Ishwar Khandre and others were present.
“Lok Sabha election might be announced by December. There is all possibility to announce the election notification in October first week. This election gained much importance. In the Assembly election, the party’s performance was not satisfactory. We had a setback in Mysuru, Hassan and Mandya. Party workers are facing problem. But at the time, there is an inevitability to protect the coalition government and strengthen the party. So, party workers and leaders should give importance to this issue”.
- Dinesh Gundu Rao, KPCC president
‘I won’t contest LS poll’
“I will not contest in the Lok Sabha election. I have no such desire. The news that I would contest the LS poll is a lie. I have no such interest. The party high command has appointed me as AICC executive committee member. The party wanted me to involve in national politics. I am going to New Delhi tomorrow to participate in the AICC meeting. I will discuss with the party high command”.
- Siddaramaiah, former CM
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Three company directors held in Rs 100-crore investment fraud in Kochi
Kochi (Kerala) (PTI): Police on Sunday arrested three directors of a firm accused of cheating hundreds of investors of over Rs 100 crore through a fake investment scheme linked to agricultural tourism here, officials said.
The accused were identified as Muraleedharan, Ashik Murali and Akhil Murali, all natives of Thrissur.
The arrests were made by the Kalamassery police in connection with a fraud involving ATCOS (Agri Tourism Cooperative Society), a firm headquartered at Pathadipalam here.
Police said the company had promised high returns by collecting investments from the public in the agricultural tourism sector, but allegedly cheated hundreds of people and fled with the money.
ATCOS was registered under the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act and operated 13 branches across various districts in Kerala, besides a branch in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, officials said.
When investors failed to receive their promised returns or the invested amount, complaints were filed with the police.
Officials said around 54 cases have been registered against the firm in 32 police stations across the state, including 29 cases at the Kalamassery police station alone.
Following instructions from Kochi City Police Commissioner K S Mahesh Kumar, a special investigation team was formed under the supervision of Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Shehensha and Thrikkakara ACP Manoj Kumar.
The team traced the accused to an apartment in Amala Nagar in Thrissur, where they had been hiding after secretly renting the flat, officials said.
The bank accounts of the accused have been frozen, and steps have been initiated to trace their assets, officials said.
Police also conducted a raid at the company’s office at Pathadipalam and seized several documents related to the case.
The accused were produced before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Kalamassery, which remanded them to judicial custody and sent them to Kakkanad jail.
Police said they would seek the custody of the accused for further interrogation as the investigation continues.
