Bengaluru: Karnataka BJP strongman B S Yediyurappa on Thursday mentioned Congress chief Rahul Gandhi isn’t any match for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asserted that his occasion would come again to energy with absolute majority. The four-time Chief Minister additionally sought to succeed in out to Muslims saying the BJP authorities has not performed “injustice” to the minority group. He was referring to the current resolution of the state authorities to scrap 4 per cent reservation for Muslims underneath the Other Backward Classes (OBC) class and inserting them underneath the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) pool.
Mr Yediyurappa mentioned the Congress is “day-dreaming” of coming to energy and claimed that the M Mallikarjuna Kharge-led occasion wouldn’t cross the 65-70 seats mark. Elections to the 224-member Assembly can be held on May 10. “BJP will come back to power with absolute majority under the dynamic leadership of Narendra Modiji”, Mr Yediyurappa mentioned at a press convention on the state BJP workplace.
“I wish to ask Congress party leaders who their leader is,” Mr Yediyurappa mentioned. “Can Rahul Gandhi be equal to Narendra Modi?” he requested. He additional mentioned PM Modi instructions respect at worldwide degree and this might profit the BJP. Mr Yediyurappa dismissed some pre-poll surveys which predicted that Congress would wrest energy from the BJP.
“I have been in politics for 50 years. I know the pulse of people very well. We have built the party from grassroots level”, he mentioned and added that BJP’s personal surveys gave his occasion 130 to 140 seats. The Lingayat strongman additionally noticed a BJP-wave within the state.
He mentioned the turnout of individuals throughout PM Modi’s engagements in Karnataka and the response throughout the ‘Jana Sankalpa Yatre’ give a transparent indication that the occasion would come again to energy.
Mr Yediyurappa recalled that he had predicted earlier than the 2019 Lok Sabha elections that the occasion would win 25 out 28 seats in Karnataka and it had come true, and expressed confidence of a repeat of such a great electoral efficiency within the coming Assembly elections.
“We have not done injustice to the Muslim community. Let there be no misunderstanding. Reservation cannot be given based on religion. We have brought them under the EWS category”, he mentioned.
Hailing Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai for the federal government’s current resolution on varied reservations, he mentioned, “For the first time in the history of Karnataka, or probably in India, our Chief Minister has done a great work on the reservation front and provided social security,” Yediyurappa mentioned.
The former CM famous that Lingayats now have seven per cent reservation and Vokkaligas six per cent, Scheduled Castes (left) six per cent, Scheduled Castes (proper) 5.5 per cent, Bhovi, Banjara different communities 4.5 per cent and different SCs one per cent.
He additionally mentioned that when he was the Chief Minister, he had fashioned Lambani Development Corporation and Thanda Development Corporation, and initiated steps to transform ‘Thandas’ into income villages. Apart from this, he had additionally allotted land to the landless Lambanis.
