Yeddyrappa tweeted: “Absolute nonsense, disgusting & desperate efforts by @INCIndia to release such fake diary, prove it at the earliest or face defamation case.”
On Friday, former Karnataka CM Yeddyurappa dismissed the allegations of impropriety by the Congress about a supposed diary calling them ‘forged and fake’.
In a statement, Yeddyurappa said Congress and its leaders were bankrupt of ‘issues and ideas’ and said they didn’t have any development issues to discuss.
He said that realising that their defeat in 2019 was imminent they were running a ‘malicious campaign’.
Yeddyrappa tweeted: “Absolute nonsense, disgusting & desperate efforts by @INCIndia to release such fake diary, prove it at the earliest or face defamation case.”
Absolute nonsense, disgusting & desperate efforts by @INCIndia to release such fake diary, prove it at the earliest or face defamation case. pic.twitter.com/3sMkYTd3Kb
— Chowkidar B.S. Yeddyurappa (@BSYBJP) March 22, 2019
He said that the issues raised by Congress about alleged payment of crores of rupees had been already inquired and the documents were found to be fake. He added that IT department officials have already probed the issue to find the ‘documents, signatures and handwritten notes are forged’.
He alleged that Congress leaders were carrying out malicious campaign by planting the story in the media to gain political mileage.
The Congress had sought an inquiry into by the Lokpal into a news report claiming that former Karnataka CM BS Yeddyurappa had made diary entries noting payoffs of Rs 1800 crore to senior BJP leaders.
Meanwhile, the BJP Karnataka Twitter handle claimed that Congress had lost its ‘common sense’.
1. Amit Shah says Cong campaign in shambles
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Amit Shah said: "After all the fake issues have collapsed, the desperate are now relying on forgery. The Congress campaign is in shambles. Now even forgery can’t save them. Few loose sheets given by a Congress minister, is only as credible and reliable as Rahul Gandhi’s leadership skills."
After all the fake issues have collapsed, the desperate are now relying on forgery.
— Chowkidar Amit Shah (@AmitShah) March 22, 2019
The Congress campaign is in shambles. Now even forgery can’t save them.
Few loose sheets given by a Congress minister, is only as credible and reliable as Rahul Gandhi’s leadership skills.
2. Rahul Gandhi
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Rahul Gandhi tweeted; "BJP ke sare Chowkidar Chor Hai. NoMo Arun Jaitley Rajnath Singh"
BJP ke sare Chowkidar Chor Hai.
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) March 22, 2019
NoMo
Arun Jaitley
Rajnath Singh
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——- https://t.co/jRmdkYjAhg
3. 14 old candidates
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He is likely to fight against former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda's grandson Prajwal Revanna. Gowda is the sitting MP from Hassan.
Manju was earlier with BJP before joining the Congress and becoming Minister in the previous Siddaramaiah led government and again returning back to the saffron party.
Union Ministers D V Sadananda Gowda from Bangalore North, Ramesh Jigajinagi from Bijapur and Ananth Kumar Hegde from Uttara Kannada, as also B Y Raghavendra, son of former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa from Shimoga, have been renominated.
Other candidates whose names have been announced by the party are, Suresh Angadi (Belgaum), P C Gaddigoudar (Bagalkot), Bhagawanth Kuba (Bidar), Shivkumar Udasi (Haveri), Prahlad Joshi (Dharwad) and Siddeshwara (Davangere); Shobha Karandlaje (Udupi-Ckikmagalur), Nalin Kumar Kateel (Dakshina Kannada), Narayana Swamy (Chitradurga), Basavaraju (Tumkur);
Prathap Simha (Mysore), Srinivasa Prasad (Chamarajanagar), PC Mohan (Bangalore central) and Bachche Gowda (Chikkaballapur).
BJP is the first to announce its list of candidates, while the Congress and JD(S) are yet to finalise their list with confusion still prevailing over some constituencies following opposition at the grassroot level over conceding the seats.
Congress workers in Mandya, Tumkur and Hassan are miffed with the party for conceding the seats to JDS.
The Congress and JD(S) that have decided to fight the polls in alliance will contest for 20 and 8 seats, respectively.
Karnataka will go to the polls in two phases, 14 constituencies each, on April 18 and 23.
4. Lok Sabha showdown - 3 Cong rebels get tickets
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Recent entrant and Congress rebel law maker Umesh Jadhav will take on Congress leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge from Gulbarga as the BJP announced its list of 21 candidates for the two-phased Lok Sabha polls in the state.
Two other new entrants from the Congress A Manju, a former MLA, and his party colleague Devendrappa, both of whom joined the BJP recently, have been rewarded with tickets to contest from Hassan and Bellary, respectively.
Fourteen of the 21 candidates announced are sitting members.
The names of the candidates for Karnataka were part of the first list of 184 nominees for Lok Sabha polls announced by senior BJP leader J P Nadda in Delhi Thursday evening.
The state has 28 Lok Sabha seats, of which the BJP had bagged 17, Congress 9 and JDS 2 in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
The BJP had yielded Ballari seat to Congress in the November bypolls.
Jadhav, a former Minister, joined the BJP at a party rally in Kalaburagi on March 6, two days after he quit the Karnataka Assembly membership, at a rally addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Jadhav, who was sulking after being dropped as minister, had on March 4 submitted his resignation from the Assembly to Speaker Ramesh Kumar.
However, Jadhav's resignation as MLA has not yet been accepted by the Speaker, who is also yet to decide on the disqualification petitions filed by the Congress, against him.
Manju, joined BJP on Sunday, unhappy with Congress' decision to cede Hassan seat to its coalition partner JD(S).
