Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah talking to reporters at Mysuru airport on Sunday.
| Photo Credit: M A Sriram
Raising a query over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposed visit to election-bound Karnataka for a authorities programme in Mysuru on April 9, former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah mentioned the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) clearance was obligatory for such a visit.
Speaking to reporters on the airport in Mysuru on Sunday, Mr. Siddaramaiah mentioned he was not opposed to the Prime Minister’s visit. “I am only asking if the visit has been permitted by the Election Commission. If he is coming without obtaining permission from the ECI, it amounts to violation of the election code of conduct,” Mr. Siddaramaiah mentioned.
PM Modi is scheduled to take part in a programme to commemorate 50 years of Project Tiger at Mysuru on April 9 earlier than visiting Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Chamarajanagar district.
Pointing out that the election code of conduct applies to all people whether or not it’s the Prime Minister, Chief Minister and even an MLA, Mr. Siddaramaiah mentioned the ECI’s permission was obligatory for Mr. Modi to visit election-bound Karnataka for a authorities programme.
Yathindra to lead Varuna marketing campaign
Replying to queries from reporters, Mr. Siddaramaiah mentioned the second record of Congress candidates can be launched after the Central Election Committee (CEC) assembly is held on Tuesday.
The suspense over social gathering nominees in Chamundeshwari, Krishnaraja and Chamaraja meeting segments in Mysuru district would even be cleared in the course of the CEC assembly, he added.
With regard to his plans to contest the elections from Kolar as well as to Varuna, Mr. Siddaramaiah mentioned the social gathering High Command could have to take a choice within the matter.
He mentioned his son Yathindra would lead his election marketing campaign in Varuna from the place he’s the sitting MLA. He mentioned he would go to Varuna solely to file the nomination as he can be touring different components of the State.
To a question about rival events’ plans to tie him up to Varuna by fielding a robust candidate, Mr. Siddaramaiah mentioned he was not nervous about his opponent in Varuna.
‘Vengeful’ politics
About reservations, Mr. Siddaramaiah sought to know why the BJP authorities had not launched the findings of the caste census, which had been carried out throughout his earlier tenure as Chief Minister. The findings of the caste census wouldn’t solely assist the federal government present reservations, but in addition chalk out programmes for backward sections within the society, he mentioned.
Mr. Siddaramaiah additionally expressed doubts over the BJP’s authorities’s determination to improve the quota for Scheduled Castes from 15% to 17% and for Scheduled Tribes from 3% to 7% standing authorized scrutiny with out its entry into the 9 th schedule of the Constitution. The BJP authorities is barely deceiving the folks, he alleged.
He additionally termed as “vengeful” politics, the Bommai authorities’s transfer to scrap 2B reservation to Muslims. Though the reservation was given to economically backward Muslims in January 1995 on the premise of the Chinnappa Reddy Commission report, the BJP authorities had scrapped the identical after so a few years now contending that reservation couldn’t be offered on spiritual grounds. “It is clearly a politics of revenge,” he mentioned.
