Voting for the 224 meeting seats within the state will happen on May 10 and the outcomes will probably be out on May 13.
In an interview with PTI, Shivakumar stated the Congress will get a snug majority in Karnataka and the win would open the doorways for the Lok Sabha elections because the get together’s victory within the state in 1978 had finished.
The Karnataka Congress chief lashed out at the BJP for elevating points such because the Uniform Civil Code and the National Register of Citizens in its manifesto for the meeting polls, saying it reveals their “chapter” of ideas and vision for the state.
He also claimed that since the BJP has no agenda and vision for Karnataka, the “Modi factor” is not going to work within the meeting polls this time.
Shivakumar, who’s a number one aspirant for the chief minister’s put up together with former chief minister Siddarammaiah in case the Congress comes to energy, stated all tales of infighting within the get together are created by the media and there’s no fact in them.
“The reality is that the Congress management is united and the get together employees are very energetic in spreading our message each on the bottom and in social media. We are placing a mixed effort to be sure that the Congress comes again to energy with a transparent majority,” he asserted.
On him being a strong contender for the post of chief minister, Shivakumar said his first priority was to ensure that the party wins a majority in Karnataka.
“For the last three years, the Congress has been working on the ground starting from the ‘Vaccinate Karnataka’ campaign, to the ‘100 Not Out’ campaign followed by the ‘Mekedatu’ Campaign to the ‘Freedom March’ and registering 78 lakh members of the Congress. Then we made the Bharat Jodo Yatra a grand success in Karnataka,” he stated.
Congress leaders and employees haven’t taken relaxation for a single day within the final three years, he stated, including that no matter is being seen now could be the religion of folks that the get together’s onerous work has received.
“For me, the get together comes first and the chief ministership comes later. On the CM situation, I’ll abide by regardless of the get together decides,” Shivakumar said.
Asked about the controversy surrounding the Congress manifesto talking about taking decisive action according to law, including imposing a ban on organisations such as the Popular Front of India and the Bajrang Dal, he alleged that the BJP was trying to divide society.
“The BJP government could not provide jobs to our youth. They failed to provide any relief to the common man when it came to inflation and price rise. Now they are trying to divide the society by inflammatory speeches,” he alleged.
This is not going to work in Karnataka and folks will sweep them apart, he claimed.
Asked about Karnataka being the gateway to the south for the BJP, Shivakumar stated the folks of the state have “closed the gate on the BJP’s face due to non-performance, corruption and large-scale unemployment within the state”.
People are supporting Congress in a big way and the party is coming back to power, the Karnatala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president claimed.
Asked about the BJP in its election manifesto promising to implement the Uniform Civil Code and the National Register of Citizens in Karnataka if it retains power in the state, Shivakumar said this is precisely the problem of the BJP.
They do not understand Karnataka and its people, the Congress leader alleged.
“Karnataka assembly elections are being fought on local issues. The BJP, which could not deliver on any front during its governance, has also failed to give a narrative in these elections. This shows their bankruptcy of ideas and vision for the state,” he stated.
Asked about Prime Minister Modi elevating the problem of abuses hurled at him, the Congress chief stated the folks of Karnataka are very civilized and they don’t imagine in utilizing and even responding to crude language.
The Congress too doesn’t imagine in utilizing abusive language. It is the BJP that has mastered the artwork of twisting the statements and manipulating the folks, he alleged.
On whether or not the Modi issue will work this time, Shivakumar stated the Congress is preventing these elections on a progressive and development-based agenda.
“We will present Rs 2,000 per 30 days to each girl head of the household, 200 models of free energy to each family other than free bus journey for girls in KSRTC/BMTC buses and a month-to-month allowance of Rs 3,000 to unemployed graduates.
“As I stated, the BJP has no agenda and imaginative and prescient for the state and folks can very properly see this. So the Modi issue is not going to work this time in these meeting polls,” he said.
Asked about the number of seats the Congress would get, Shivakumar said, “We will win at least 141 seats and form a government with a comfortable majority. The BJP will be reduced to less than 60 (seats).” On the message that might be despatched out by way of the Karnataka polls for the 2024 normal election, he stated Karnataka was just the start.
“We are comfortably successful Karnataka elections and it’ll open the doorways for the Lok Sabha elections. Karnataka folks will give a message to the nation. Earlier additionally at the time of Devraj Urs (former chief minister), when the Janata Party was in energy at the nationwide stage in 1978, Karnataka had opened the door for Congress. Now once more, Karnataka will play its function,” he said.
“We will form a government in Karnataka in 2023 and in the country in 2024,” stated Shivakumar, who’s contesting from Kanakapura Seven-time MLA Shivakumar has been elected thrice from Kanakapura since 2008 and is now searching for reelection for the fourth time from there.
He had earlier received 4 consecutive elections since 1989 from the close by Sathanur until he shifted to the Kanakapura in 2008 after that constituency ceased to exist as the results of a delimitation train.
In the 2018 elections, Shivakumar secured 1,27,552 votes, defeating Janata Dal (Secular) candidate Narayana Gowda (47,643) by 79,909 votes.
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