BENGALURU/BIDAR: In a bid to woo Lingayats and Vokkaligas, the 2 highly effective dominant communities of Karnataka forward of the meeting elections that are due in May, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday unveiled the statues of twelfth century social reformer and Lingayat sect founder Lord Basaveshwara and Bengaluru founder Kempe Gowda at Vidhana Soudha, the Karnataka seat of energy. Shah additionally justified the choice of the BJP authorities in Karnataka led by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to scrap the 4 per cent reservation for Muslims within the 2B class asserting that there was no provision within the Constitution for affirmative motion on the premise of faith.
The 4 per cent reservation has been re-apportioned equally to the Lingayats and Vokkaligas, leaving the Muslims to compete for the ten per cent reservation offered for Economically Weaker Sections of the final class, which is set based mostly on household revenue. The senior BJP chief additionally inaugurated a martyrs’ memorial at Gorata village in Bidar, the place on May 9, 1948 greater than 200 persons are mentioned to have been massacred by the Razakars of Nizam because the Hyderabad rulers opposed the erstwhile princely state’s unification with India.
According to the Sundarlal Committee that inquired into the violence throughout the annexation of Hyderabad, not less than 27,000 Muslims too had been murdered by the Indian Army on the time. The report was declassified solely within the yr 2013. Undertaking a whirlwind tour from Bidar within the far north of Karnataka to Bengaluru down south, Shah inaugurated varied tasks in Bidar, Raichur and Bengaluru, and appealed to the folks to bless the BJP with absolute majority. He mentioned the social gathering was dedicated to eradicating corruption and develop Karnataka.
“The statue of Jagadjyoti Basaveshwara here will send across a message to the entire world that India is the mother of democracy. In the 12th Century AD, Basaveshwara had strengthened society by showing the courage to provide a common platform to people from the lowest strata to the highest echelons,” Shah mentioned, unveiling Basaveshwara’s and Kempe Gowda’s statues. Bengaluru, based by Kempe Gowda, had assumed the form of a world metropolis, Shah mentioned.
Shah addressed the gathering from the rostrum on the grand steps of the imposing Vidhana Soudha, which was draped in vibrant mild and well-decorated. Sri Nirmalanandanatha Swamiji of Adichunchanagiri Math, a robust seer of Vokkaliga neighborhood, and Suthur Math pontiff Jagadguru Sri Shivaratri Deshikendra Mahaswamiji together with a robust consultant of the Lingayat sect, discovered a distinguished presence on the rostrum at Vidhana Soudha.
Hailing the “double engine” BJP authorities on the Centre and the State, Shah famous that Bengaluru had change into the primary vacation spot for Foreign Direct Investment and ‘ease of doing enterprise’. Karnataka was additionally the house of the most important variety of startups and it additionally contributed considerably in aeronautics and house expertise, he added.
The Union Home Minister lauded the Karnataka authorities’s resolution of scrapping the 4 per cent reservation for Muslims beneath 2B Other Backward Classes (OBCs) class, saying the Constitution doesn’t present for a quota on non secular strains. Earlier, addressing public conferences at Gorata village in Bidar district and Gabbur in Raichur district, he slammed the Congress for introducing the 4 per cent reservation for Muslims for “its vote bank politics”.
Congress has at all times humiliated the Lingayat neighborhood.
ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಲಿಂಗಾಯತ ಸಮುದಾಯವನ್ನು ಸದಾ ಅವಮಾನಿಸುತ್ತಲೇ ಬಂದಿದೆ.
ಸುದೀರ್ಘ ಅವಧಿಯವರೆಗೆ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಆಡಳಿತ ನಡೆಸಿದರೂ ಕೇವಲ ಇಬ್ಬರು ಲಿಂಗಾಯತ ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿಗಳನ್ನು ಮಾತ್ರ ನೀಡಿತ್ತು ಮತ್ತು ಅವರನ್ನು ಕೂಡಾ ಅವಮಾನಿಸಿ ಹೊರಹಾಕಿತು. pic.twitter.com/pgVaQrRPnB
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) April 25, 2023
Shah mentioned that the Bommai-led BJP authorities had additionally tried to cast off the “injustice to the Scheduled Castes” by introducing a brand new inside reservation. The 4 per cent quota taken away from the Muslims was equally divided among the many two dominant communities of the state: Vokkaligas in 2C reservation class and Veerashaiva-Lingayats in 2D reservation class. With this, the 2B class turned redundant whereas the Vokkaligas’ reservation went up from 4 per cent to 6 per cent and that of the Lingayats from 5 per cent to seven per cent. “The BJP never believes in appeasement,” Shah mentioned, strongly defending the choice to take reservation away from the Muslims and improve the quota of the Vokkaligas and Veerashaiva Lingayats forward of the Assembly Elections. “So, it decided to change the reservation.”
“The BJP abolished the four per cent reservation given to the minorities and gave two per cent to the Vokkaligas and two per cent to the Lingayats,” Shah mentioned. “The reservation for minorities is not Constitutionally valid. There is no provision in the Constitution to give reservation based on religion. The Congress government did it for its appeasement politics and gave reservation to the minorities,” he added.
The Congress says it’s going to restore reservations for Muslims if it involves energy.
ಒಂದು ವೇಳೆ ಇವರು ಧರ್ಮದ ಆಧಾರದಲ್ಲಿ ಮೀಸಲಾತಿ ನೀಡುವುದಾದರೆ ಯಾರ ಮೀಸಲಾತಿಯನ್ನು ಕಡಿತ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ? ಲಿಂಗಾಯತರ ಅಥವಾ ಒಕ್ಕಲಿಗರ ಅಥವಾ ಎಸ್ಟಿ/ಎಸ್ಸಿ ಅಥವಾ ಒಬಿಸಿ ಮೀಸಲಾತಿಯನ್ನೇ ? pic.twitter.com/DM0mks9oZD
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) April 25, 2023
Shah additionally hit out on the Congress, alleging that it by no means remembered those that fought and sacrificed their lives for the liberation of Hyderabad from the “brutal” Nizam rule. Addressing the folks after inaugurating the Gorata Martyrs’ Memorial and the statue of the nation’s first Home Minister late Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at Gorata village, Shah additionally slammed the Ok Chandrasekhar Rao-led Telangana authorities for “hesitating” to rejoice Hyderabad Liberation Day.
Hoisting a 103 ft excessive nationwide flag at Gorata, he known as it the “Jallianwala Bagh of South India”. Recalling the horror of Gorata on May 9, 1948, the Union Minister mentioned that 200 folks had been massacred by the “brutal” Nizam although the nation had change into impartial. Shah mentioned it was a very powerful day for an “emotional person” like him, as a result of on that day the ruthless military of the Nizam butchered about 200 folks for allegedly hoisting a 2.5 ft tricolour.
This is an election to make Karnataka a totally developed state and to make sure political stability.
ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಈ ಚುನಾವಣೆ ರಾಜ್ಯದ ಭವಿಷ್ಯವನ್ನು ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ ಶ್ರೀ ನರೇಂದ್ರ ಮೋದಿಯವರ ಕೈಗೆ ನೀಡುವ ಮತ್ತು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕವನ್ನು ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ ಹೊಂದಿದ ರಾಜ್ಯವನ್ನಾಗಿ ಪರಿವರ್ತಿಸುವ ಚುನಾವಣೆಯಾಗಿದೆ. pic.twitter.com/ZZfeDdiy2c
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) April 25, 2023
He added that right now, he may proudly proclaim that he hoisted a 103 ft tricolour, which nobody may ever attain. Shah recalled that eight years in the past he had visited the place because the BJP nationwide president and laid the muse for the Gorata Martyr’s Memorial with the route to the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha employees to construct a memorial that will be remembered all through the nation for a whole bunch of years.
As the announcement of election dates to the Karnataka Assembly has change into imminent now, the highest BJP management together with Shah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP nationwide president J P Nadda have undertaken back-to-back visits to Karnataka the place they’ve inaugurated a sequence of tasks, laid the muse stones of assorted improvement works and brought half in lots of public conferences.
