The BJP President accused Congress of polarising the community by giving minority status to Lingayats
BJP president Amit Shah on Saturday called the decision of the Karnataka government to give minority status to Lingayat community as a strategy to ‘polarise votes’.
Addressing the media, the BJP chief termed the step as a part of plan chalked out to stop their chief ministerial candidate BS Yeddyurappa from becoming the chief minister.
“This is a strategy to stop Yeddyurappa Ji from becoming Karnataka chief minister. They (Siddaramaiah government) want to polarise Lingayat votes but the community is aware of it. BJP will make its stance clear after polls,” Shah said.
Shah said the Congress has become a ‘symbol of corruption’ and added that the people of Karnataka have made up their mind to change Siddaramaiah government.
The elections to the 224-Karnataka Assembly will be held on May 12, while the counting of votes will take place on May 15
Earlier Shah began his fourth round of visit to the poll-bound Karnataka with a tour of old Mysuru areas, asserting that Siddaramaiah and JDS would receive "biggest shock of their lives" from the region in the May 12 assembly polls.
"It is said that the BJP is a bit weak here (Old Mysuru region), but after seeing the work of the party workers, I expect Siddaramaiahji and the JD(S) to get the biggest shock of their lives from this (Old) Mysuru region," he told a party convention here.
Shah is presently covering the districts of Mysuru, Chamarajanagara, Mandya and Ramanagara, where BJP had not won even a single seat in the previous election.
The principal challenger to the ruling Congress is JDS in these districts.
Referring to his gaffe at Davanagere earlier this week, Shah said though he had committed a mistake in his speech while referring to Siddaramaiah's corruption, people of the state would not do the same because they knew Siddaramaiah's rule well.
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