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People are fighting Karnataka Assembly polls on behalf of BJP: PM Modi

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Badami: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the overwhelming response he received in Bengaluru during the roadshow made him believe that it is the people who are contesting the 2023 assembly elections in Karnataka on behalf of the BJP.
The Prime Minister also said the “never-seen-before love and affection” he saw in Bengaluru was “unparalleled”.
“This morning, I went to have a ‘darshan’ (opportunity to see) of ‘janata janardhan’ (public god) in Bengaluru. People gave me never-seen-before love and affection,” Modi said at a public meeting here in Bagalkote district of poll-bound Karnataka, which votes on May 10.

People stood in every nook and corner of the road all along the 25 kilometres from where his convoy passed during the Bengaluru roadshow, the Prime Minister said.
Modi said people with their families, differently-abled persons, and women with their newborn children stood on either side of the road.
“What I saw in Bengaluru, I say with confidence that this election is neither Modi contesting, nor BJP leaders or our candidates, it is the election the people of Karnataka are fighting on behalf of the BJP. I see the total control of the election in the hands of people,” the Prime Minister said.
He also said the BJP’s “double engine” government has been working on bringing in development without discrimination.
“For the first time, the people of Bagalkote got three lakh tapped water connections. Over 25,000 people of Bagalkote got their own cement house. Ayushman Bharat scheme benefits reached the people of Bagalkote,” Modi told the crowd.

Taking a swipe at former chief minister Siddaramaiah who was elected from Badami constituency in the district in the 2018 election, the Prime Minister said: “I have heard that Siddaramaiah is saying that whatever development has happened in the last 3.5 years was due to his government’s efforts. His confessional statement is self-explanatory that if there is anyone who does the work then it is the double-engine government and does so without discrimination.”
It is the BJP government’s work which has benefitted the people of this region, Modi said, adding, “highways are improving and railway projects are happening” as the party is governing both at the Centre and in the state.
“Siddaramaiah has left this place leaving you all (the former CM is contesting from Varuna seat this time). He has sensed which direction the wind is blowing. If he comes here by chance, ask him one question why people were deprived of basic infrastructure earlier,” he said.
ಕಳೆದ 3.5 ವರ್ಷಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಬಾದಾಮಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ ಆಗಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳುವ ಸಿದ್ದರಾಮಯ್ಯ #DoubleEngineSarkaraದ ಕೊಡುಗೆ – ಸಫಲತೆಯನ್ನು ಒಪ್ಪಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
“ಇದಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಮೊದಲು ಬಾದಾಮಿಯ ಜನತೆ ಮೂಲಭೂತ ಸೌಕರ್ಯಗಳಿಂದ ಯಾಕೆ ವಂಚಿತರಾಗಿದ್ದರು?” ಎಂದು ನೀವು ಅವರನ್ನು ಕೇಳಬೇಕು.
– ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ ಶ್ರೀ @narendramodi #NarishaktiWithModi… pic.twitter.com/6DmZI1QJXg
— BJP Karnataka (@BJP4Karnataka) May 6, 2023
Hitting out at the Congress, Modi said the party has a “track record of 85 per cent commission” and they can never work to serve the people.
Modi said former Prime Minister late Rajiv Gandhi had said on record that when one rupee “rolls” from Delhi, only 85 paise reaches the people. “Whose claw was it that eats away 85 paise from one rupee? This was the Congress way of functioning. Due to the misdeeds of Congress, India lagged behind for so many decades,” he said.
“The BJP used the trident of Aadhaar, mobile phone and Jan-Dhan account that their (Congress’) old habits have completely destroyed,” he pointed out.
Modi said in nine years, the BJP government transferred Rs 29 lakh crore into the bank accounts of poor and middle-class families and the money reached people without a paisa being stolen.
If it was the Congress government, then the party leaders would have plundered Rs 24 lakh crore, he alleged.
The Prime Minister said India has become one of the largest mobile phone manufacturing nations. There was a time when India had only two cell phone-making factories but now the country boasts of more than 200 factories, he added.
Explaining further, he said before 2014, when Congress was in power at the Centre, one gigabyte (GB) of mobile internet data used to cost Rs 300 but with the BJP government at the helm, one GB of data now costs only Rs 10.
“The amount of data you use a month, if the old rates existed in the Congress era, have you ever imagined how many bills you would have received? Rs 4,000 to Rs 5,000 per month,” he claimed.

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May 6, 2023
Will abide by party’s decision on CM issue: Karnataka Cong chief

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New Delhi: Karnataka Congress chief D K Shivakumar Saturday exuded confidence that his party would win over 140 seats in the May 10 assembly polls and asserted that he would abide by whatever the party decides on the issue of chief ministership.
In an interview with PTI, Shivakumar said the Congress will get a comfortable majority in Karnataka and the win would open the doors for the Lok Sabha elections as the party’s victory in the state in 1978 had done.
The Karnataka Congress chief lashed out at the BJP for raising issues such as the Uniform Civil Code and National Register of Citizens in its manifesto for the assembly polls, saying it shows their “bankruptcy” of ideas and vision for the state.

He also claimed that since the BJP has no agenda and vision for Karnataka, the “Modi factor” will not work in the assembly polls this time.
Shivakumar, who is a leading aspirant for the chief minister’s post along with former CM Siddarammaiah in case the Congress comes to power, said all stories of infighting in the party are created by media and there is no truth in them.
“The fact is that the Congress leadership is united and the party workers are very active in spreading our message both on the ground and in social media. We are putting a combined effort to ensure that the Congress comes back to power with a clear 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 party has been working on the ground starting from the Vaccinate Karnataka Campaign, to the 100 Not Out Campaign followed by Mekedatu Campaign to Freedom March and registering 78 lakh members of the Congress party. Then we made the Bharat Jodo Yatra a grand success in Karnataka,” he said.

Congress leaders and workers have not taken rest for a single day in the last three years, he said, adding that whatever is being seen now is the faith of people that the party’s hard work has won.
“For me, the party comes first and the chief ministership comes later. On the CM issue, I will abide by whatever the party decides,” Shivakumar said.
Asked about the controversy surrounding the Congress manifesto talking about taking decisive action as per law, including imposing a ban on organizations such as PFI and Bajrang Dal, Shivakumar alleged that the BJP was trying to divide the 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 will not work in Karnataka and people will sweep them aside, he claimed.
Asked about Karnataka being the gateway to the south for the BJP, Shivakumar said the people of Karnataka have “closed the gate on the BJP’s face because of non-performance, corruption and large-scale unemployment in the state”.
People are supporting Congress in a big way and the party is coming back to power, he claimed.
Asked about the BJP in its election manifesto promising to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) 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 said.
Asked about Prime Minister Modi raising the issue of abuses hurled at him, the Congress leader said the people of Karnataka are very civilized and they do not believe in using and even responding to crude language.
The Congress party too does not believe in using abusive language. It is the BJP that has mastered the art of twisting the statements and manipulating the people, he alleged.
On whether the Modi factor will work this time, Shivakumar said the Congress is fighting these elections on a progressive and development-based agenda.
“We will provide Rs 2,000 per month to every woman head of the family, 200 units of free power to every household apart from free bus travel for women in KSRTC/BMTC buses and a monthly allowance of Rs 3,000 to unemployed graduates.
“As I said, the BJP has no agenda and vision for the state and people can very well see this. So the Modi factor will not work this time in these assembly polls,” he said.
Expressing confidence that the Congress would cross the 140-seat mark, Shivakumar said, “We will win 141 seats and form government with a comfortable majority. The BJP will be reduced to less than 60 (seats).”
On the message that would be sent out through the Karnataka polls for the 2024 general election, he said Karnataka was just the beginning.
“We are comfortably winning Karnataka elections and it will open the doors for the Lok Sabha elections. Karnataka people will give a message to the country. Earlier also at the time of Devraj Urs (former chief minister), when the Janata Party was in power at the national level in 1978, Karnataka had opened the door for Congress. Now again, Karnataka will play its role,” Shivakumar said.
“We will form government in Karnataka in 2023 and in the country in 2024,” he said.
Voting for the 224 assembly seats in the state will take place on May 10 and the results will be out on May 13.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 6, 2023
Karnataka polls: Siddaramaiah locked in fierce fight with BJP’s Somanna in Varuna

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Varuna: It’s a battle royale in the Varuna constituency in Mysuru district where the BJP with all its might has decided to take Congress strongman Siddaramaiah head-on in his home turf in the May 10 Assembly election.
The ruling party has fielded Housing Minister V Somanna against the former Chief Minister, who is fighting his last election, in this segment, where his son Yathindra Siddaramaiah won the previous polls in 2018.
As the then Chief Minister, he contested from Chamundeshwari in Mysuru district from where he had been an MLA five times but had lost twice there, and Badami in Bagalkote district.

Siddaramaiah lost to JD(S) candidate G T Deve Gowda in Chamundeshwari but won from Badami with a margin of 1,696 votes against BJP’s B Sriramulu.
“We have fielded Somanna as our candidate from Varuna. You (people) make him MLA and send him to the Assembly. I’m telling you that BJP will make him a big personality…,” said Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who addressed an election rally a few days ago.
The Sangh Parivar has put all its energy behind the 72-year-old Somanna, who had been an MLA from Govindaraj Nagar in Bengaluru, from where he has been moved out for the first time.
According to Somanna, a five-time MLA, he was not willing to contest election this time and wanted to retire but the BJP top leadership asked him to fight from Varuna and Chamarajanagar segments and he could not say no to them.
“What else can I say when the Prime Minister asked me to contest from Varuna? I agreed to it,” Somanna said.

The 75-year-old Siddaramaiah, an eight time MLA, is upbeat about his electoral prospects.
“As Chief Minister I have given many good programmes. I have done a lot of work here for the people. This is my last election and after this, I am going to retire from active politics,” said.
The electioneering in Varuna has become ‘star-studded’.
Kannada actors Shivaraj Kumar and B R Vijay Kumar, popularly known as Duniya Vijay, campaigned for Somanna, while Sommanna brought in renowned actor Sudeep Sanjeev, fondly called as Kichcha Sudeep, to add star appeal.
The electoral fight is so fierce here that many voters say: “We have not seen a poll battle like this before”.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 6, 2023
Karnataka polls: After 4 yrs, Sonia to address public meeting today

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Bengaluru: With just three days left for the campaigning in Karnataka, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi will be addressing a public meeting in the southern state on Saturday along with her son and party leader Rahul Gandhi.
According to Congress, Sonia Gandhi will be addressing a joint rally with her son in Hubli in the evening.
The area around Hubli has remained a laboratory for Hindutva politics and the Congress has chosen this region for Sonia Gandhi’s public meeting.

Meanwhile, Rahul Gandhi will be addressing two more public meetings — in Yamakanmardi and Chikodi in Karnataka’s Belagavi — before joining his mother in the third public meeting.
This will be the first election public meeting of Sonia Gandhi, who is currently the Chairperson of Congress Parliamentary Party after May 2019.
Sonia Gandhi addressed the last electoral public meeting in Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli on May 2, 2019.
Her last speech at a public meeting was on December 14, 2019 in Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan where she spoke in Bharat Bachao Rally.
However, due to health reasons she had participated in several programmes of the party, but has stayed away from the election campaigning and public meetings.

However, Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have been campaigning aggressively in karnataka and both of them have jointly held over 40 public meetings and roadshows in the state.
Rahul Gandhi, meanwhile, has not raked up the Adani issue in the Karnataka Assembly polls and has kept his campaigning focused on local issues of corruption, unemployment, etc.
Besides the Gandhi family, even Congress leadership has been holding aggressive campaigning in the state.
The ruling BJP is facing stiff competition from the Congress in the southern state. The Congress has been campaigning aggressively in Karnataka and has cornered the BJP on issues of corruption and several others.
The Congress announced several promises for the people of the state in its manifesto. The party also promised to repeal, within one year of coming to power, “all unjust laws and other anti-people laws” passed by the BJP government in the state.
To woo the voters in the state, Congress announced Gruha Jyothi (200 units of free electricity), Gruha Lakshmi- Rs 2,000 monthly to every woman head of the family, Anna Bhagya – 10 kg of food grains of their choice (among rice, ragi, jowar, millet) to every person in a BPL family.
It also promised that the party is committed to take a firm and decisive action against individuals and organisations spreading hatred amongst communities on grounds of caste or religion. It also said that it will ban any organisation like Bajrang Dal and PFI, if they try to spread hatred.
BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have cornered Congress on its decision to ban Bajrang Dal in Karnataka.
Elections for the 224-member Assembly is scheduled on May 10 and counting of votes will take place on May 13.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 6, 2023
IRCTC launches 6-day Coastal Karnataka packages from Hyderabad

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Hyderabad: The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has announced a special package for travellers from Hyderabad to Karnataka called ‘Coastal Karnataka’ to visit famous tourist destinations and temples.
The Coastal Karnataka package will be available from May and trains will depart every Tuesday from Kacheguda Railway Station at 6:05 am.
The price of the tour will be from Rs 11,600 to Rs 34,270 for a six-day and 5 nights journey, which includes the comfort category of train journeys on sleeper class for the standard category and 3AC.

The special package will take you across the coast of Murudeshwar and Mangalore and famous tourist destinations like ST Mary’s Island, Malpe Beach and Jog Falls.
The spiritual locations like Sri Krishna Temple, Sharadamba Temple, Mookambika Temple, Murudeshwar Temple in Gokarna, Kateel Temple and Mangala Devi Temple are included as well.
The package will also provide main facilities like an air-conditioned vehicle for passengers including accommodation for three nights, breakfast and travel insurance.
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May 5, 2023
Cong ups attack on BJP, shares ‘rate card of corruption in Karnataka’

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New Delhi: With just a few days to go for the May 10 assembly elections in Karnataka, the Congress on Friday targeted the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the issue of corruption, and also released a “rate card” of alleged corruption in the southern state.
The Congress first shared the rate card from the official Twitter handle of the party in a bid to scale up attacks on the issue of corruption.
In the post, the Congress alleged that the Karnataka Chief Minister’s post was up for grabs for Rs 2,500 crore and the rate of ministerial posts was Rs 500 crore.

Sharing the post on Twitter, the party wrote, “Kannadigas! Here is the corruption rate card of the ‘TROUBLE ENGINE’ 40% Sarkara.”
The post also highlighted figures for “Appointment and Transfer Rates”, “Job Rates”, and alleged commission for government deals.
Following the party’s stand, even former Congress president Rahul Gandhi also shared the post and targeted the BJP, saying “trouble Engine BJP is in love with the number 40, people of Karnataka will give them 40 seats only”.
In a tweet, Rahul Gandhi said: “BJP’s 40% Commission Sarkara’s ‘Rate Card’! ‘Trouble Engine’ BJP is in love with the number 40, people of Karnataka will give them 40 seats only!”
The Congress and Rahul Gandhi has been attacking the BJP over the alleged corruption in the BJP government in the state.

Last year, the Congress launched PayCM campaign in the state to highlight the alleged corruption.
The Congress has been campaigning aggressively in Karnataka and has cornered the BJP on issues of corruption and several other matters.
The Congress released its manifesto on Tuesday and also announced several promises for the people of the state.
The party also promised to repeal, within one year of coming to power, “all unjust laws and other anti-people laws” passed by the BJP government in the state.
To woo the voters in the state, Congress announced Gruha Jyothi (200 units of free electricity), Gruha Lakshmi – Rs 2,000 monthly to every woman head of the family, Anna Bhagya – 10 kg of food grains of their choice (among rice, ragi, jowar, millet) to every person in a BPL family.
The election for the 224-member assembly is scheduled on May 10 and counting of votes will take place on May 13.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 5, 2023
With just 7 pc increase, Congress could win 150 seats in Karnataka: Survey

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The upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections have sparked controversy, with surveys conducted by the BJP and its frontal organizations indicating that a narrow margin of votes and a combined use of 13 percent Muslim votes could help the Congress win 150 seats, adding to the BJP’s woes.
The BJP leadership is throwing all its might in the elections, fearful of these revelations in the surveys. In the 2019 assembly elections, Congress obtained 31.50 percent of the total votes, and the Janata Dal-Secular managed to secure 4.87 percent of the votes, while the BJP secured 50.32 percent of the votes. However, if the votes are seen closely, Congress could win by a huge majority.
According to the India Today survey, a mere one percent increase in the Congress’s vote share will benefit three seats, while a 2 percent increase can add 12 seats to the Congress. The Congress, which secured 80 seats in the previous elections, can obtain 92 seats. If the Congress increases its vote share by 3 percent, it is likely to win 107 seats, an increase of 4 percent votes can make the Congress win 122 seats, while a 5 percent increase can help the Congress secure 139 seats. If the Congress manages to obtain an extra 7 percent votes i.e. 39 percent votes, it can win 150 seats.

Not only Muslims but also secular urban and Lingayat voters are fighting unitedly to prevent the BJP from winning the Karnataka elections. There is no trend among women to vote in favor of the BJP. In Karnataka, Muslim voters constitute 13 percent of the electorate, while Lingayats account for 17 percent of the population. If Muslims and Lingayats vote together in favor of the Congress, then the Congress can win a historic victory in the Karnataka Assembly elections.
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May 5, 2023
Karnataka polls: Sonia Gandhi to join Rahul, Priyanka to bolster campaign

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Bengaluru: It is a crucial election in Karnataka and it is the first time that three members of the Nehru-Gandhi family have jumped into the election campaign fray in a state as party leaders to woo the voters to bring the party to power in the southern state.
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have campaigned extensively in Karnataka and Sonia Gandhi will address a public meeting in Hubbali on Saturday.
Karnataka has a long connection with the Nehru-Gandhi family and has been a “comeback territory” in the past.

Indira Gandhi made a political comeback from Chikmagalur in Karnataka in a bypoll in 1978. Sonia Gandhi also fought from Ballari in the state in her debut election in which she was also in the fray from Amethi.
Karnataka is crucial for Congress as it can mark its revival for the 2024 Lok Sabha election. If BJP is defeated in Karnataka, the party will not be in power in any southern state.
With Rahul Gandhi having been disqualified from Lok Sabha following his conviction in a criminal defamation case and the election debacles Congress faced in 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Congress is pinning strong hopes on Karnataka where it has strong state leadership.
The party feels that a win in Karnataka will give it a massive boost to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi before the 2024 general elections and emerge as a fulcrum of opposition unity.
Rahul Gandhi has so far held 17 rallies and roadshows in Karnataka, while his sister Priyanka Gandhi has done 19 rallies.

The campaign for May 10 polls will continue at the same pace in the next four days as well.
Apart from Rahul-Priyanka’s road shows and rallies, Rahul Gandhi is also likely to hold a press conference.
Sonia Gandhi has not campaigned in any state elections in the recent past.
The former Congress president did the last election rally in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in her parliamentary constituency Rae Bareli.
She gave a speech at the Bharat Bachao rally at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan on December 14, 2019.
The area around Hubballi is seen to a “laboratory of Hindutva politics” in Karnataka and the Congress has chosen this place for Sonia Gandhi’s rally.
Apart from members of the Gandhi family, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, who hails from Karnataka, has been campaigning in the state for the last 20 days.
The party’s Karnataka in-charge Randeep Surjewala has been camping there for the past two months with an army of spokespersons.
While Priyanka Gandhi had campaigned in her mother’s and brother’s constituencies in Uttar Pradesh before her formal entry into politics, it is the first time that the three members of Nehru-Gandhi family will be part of the campaign as full-time leaders of the Congress.
The Karnataka assembly elections will be held in a single phase on May 10, with the counting of votes scheduled for May 13.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 5, 2023
Karnataka Golf Association is a ‘public authority’ under RTI Act, declares HC

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Bengaluru: Dismissing a petition by the Karnataka Golf Association (KGA), the High Court has upheld the decision of the Karnataka Information Commission (KIC) that it is a ‘public authority’ under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
The KIC had declared the KGA a public authority under Section 2(h) of the RTI Act in an order on October 14, 2014. KGA had challenged this order before the HC.
Justice N S Sanjay Gowda heard the final arguments and delivered his judgment on the petition recently.

In a batch of petitions earlier, the High Court had held that societies registered under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act such as Bangalore Turf Club, Mysore Race Club, Ladies Club and the Institution of Engineers (India) which were granted lands on the basis of lease by the government were public authorities since the grant of lands under lease amounted to these clubs being substantially financed by the government.
The HC in its judgment on the KGA said, “The government order which is produced along with this petition indicates that 124 acres of land has been leased to the petitioner’s Association for a period of 30 years from May 17, 2010, subject to the petitioner paying two per cent of annual gross income as lease rent for the fresh lease period.”
Thus, KGA was a public authority, the HC said.
“In my view, the fact that 124 acres of land has been leased on two per cent of the annual gross income would indicate that the Association has been substantially financed by the State. It is to be noticed here that the Golf Association can run the Golf Course only if the land is available to them and if the land is given to them on a heavily subsidised rent, this would amount to a substantial financing as contemplated under RTI Act,” the judgement said.
Citing the earlier judgments in the cases of the other clubs, the HC said, “In my view, it would be appropriate to follow the decision rendered in the aforementioned Writ Petitions and uphold the order of the Karnataka Information Commission which has held that the petitioner is a public authority as contemplated under the RTI Act.”

Umpathi S had filed a RTI application seeking information about the Club in 2012. Since his application was refused, he had approached the KIC.
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May 4, 2023
To counter Modi’s Jai Bajrangbali, Uddhav comes up with ‘Jai Shivaji’ in Karnataka

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Mumbai: Countering Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to Karnataka voters to utter the name of “Jai Bajrangbali”, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday urged the Marathi voters to invoke “Jai Bhavani” and “Jai Shivaji” while casting their votes.
Reacting to Modi’s statements, the Shiv Sena-UBT President said that when his father and Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray had sought votes in the name of Hindutva in 1987, his voting rights were taken away for six years in 1999 with effect from 1995 by the Election Commission.
“If the country’s PM is promoting Hinduism, then the voting rules may have been changed now… The Marathi-speaking people of Karnataka should say ‘Jai Bhavani’, aJai Shivaji’ and then vote for the candidates of Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MES),” Thackeray said.

VIDEO | “If PM has asked people to say ‘Jai Bajrang Bali’ and cast their vote, I will also tell all Marathi-speaking people to say ‘Jai Bhawani, Jai Shivaji’ and vote out those who oppress them,” says Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray. pic.twitter.com/kLyBSBaQxG
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) May 4, 2023
He also frowned at the Congress for raising the issue of Bajrangbali in the elections and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s strong reactions to it ahead of the May 10 Karnataka Assembly polls.
The Sena-UBT chief said the need of the hour is unity among the people who believe that there should not be a dictatorship in the country.
“Its not about defeating an individual but vanquishing the attitude. Everyone should come forth unitedly to defeat the dictatorial attitude,” declared Thackeray.
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May 4, 2023