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Bengaluru, March 16: After erecting and inaugurating the 108-feet statue of Kempw Gowda, now it is turn of Basaveshwara.
While the BJP is pulling out all the tricks from its bag to garner Vokkaliga votes, it also wants to retain and consolidate the Lingayath votes.
The BJP hopes to reap rich electoral dividends in the Old-Mysore region from the Vokkaligas by showcasing the 108-feet statue of Kempe Gowda.
That Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself unveiled the statue of Kempe Gowda at Baoes on to suggest the importance of Vokkaliga votes in the Old-Mysore region.
Not to be left behind the Lingayat community now wants to be recognized at the global level. The community now wants a 108-feet statue of Basaveshwara, the 12th century social reformer on the banks of River Ghataprabha in Belagavi district.
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has agreed to the request of the Lingayath community.
“It should be a 108-feet statue of Basaveshwara. The statue and surrounding place should resemble like the Statue of Unity of Sardar Vallabhabhai Patel,” Prabhakar Kore has said.
The BJP has learnt the art of “appeasement” various communities without getting branded “as appeasement politics” by some clever strategy of “politics of statues”.
BJP sources told The Newz Peg that former minister K.S. Eshwarappa is likely to lead a delegation of Kuruba community leaders to Chief Minister demand installation of 108-feet statue of Saint Kanakadasa “anywhere in Karnataka” as early as possible.
It’s raining statues in Karnataka and the politics of appeasement of various communities has attained “professionalism”
EOM
