Sakleshpur, Apr 25: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday campaigned in the Janata Dal (Secular) bastion of Hassan. At a roadshow, Shah urged voters to reject the JDS and elect at least 4 BJP MLAs from the district.
Indirectly calling the JDS the Congress ‘B team’, Shah said that a vote for the regional party is a vote for the Grand Old Party. Vote for the BJP and strengthen the hands of PM, Narendra Modi, he told the voters.
He urged voters to elect BJP Sakleshpur candidate Cement Manjunath to develop the constituency in all sectors. In Alur, Shah took out a road show for 3km where thousands of people from neighbouring villages gathered on either side of the main road.
Addressing the crowd, the Home Minister said, “If you don’t want your votes to go failed, cast it directly to BJP and our candidates.”
Hassan is the home district of JD(S) patriarch and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, and the party in 2018 Assembly polls had won in six out of seven segments other than the Hassan Assembly seat, which BJP’s Preetham Gowda had won, making it the first-ever win for the saffron party in the Vokkaliga dominated district in recent times.
HK Kumaraswamy, sitting MLA and senior JD(S) leader, is their candidat
Further, he said that Preetham Gowda had done a good job against the “dynasts” in the district and under his work, BJP will win more seats in the district.
“BJP will win this time in Hassan district, and lotuses will bloom. I request the people and voters of Sakaleshpur to ensure ‘Cement’ Manjunath (BJP candidate) wins and strengthen Modi’s hands,” Shah claimed.
He reminded that JD(S) and Congress had given four per cent reservations for Muslims in Karnataka, the Union Home Minister said the BJP government has removed it and increased reservations for Lingayats, Vokkali igas and SC/STs.
The JD(S) and Congress say that they will come to power and bring in Muslim reservations once again. “I want to ask whose (reservation) will you reduce? Will you reduce Vokkaligas or Lingayats or SC/STs? You are against whom?tell it to the people of Karnataka.” Shah asked.
