Karnataka Leader of Opposition (LoP) and Congress chief Siddaramaiah on Friday stated that the imminent Karnataka Assembly elections goes to be his closing electoral struggle and he’s going to retire from politics. Talking to ANI, Siddaramaiah stated, “I am contesting from Varuna meeting constituency as my local village comes beneathneath this constituency. This goes to be my closing election. I will retire from electoral politics.” Siddaramaiah similarly introduced that he’s going to nonetheless be in lively politics however after this election he gained`t take delivery of any posts with a view to be in Delhi.
“I am contesting from Varuna (meeting constituency) because it has been cleared through the birthday birthday celebration’s excessive command. It’s now no longer that I am fascinated to contest however Kolar humans need me to contest from there”, he stated. Siddaramaiah stated that Congress is awaiting greater than a hundred thirty seats this time.
“We are awaiting greater than a hundred thirty seats this time and Congress Party will come to strength with a snug majority on its own. People have determined to extrade the authorities”, he introduced. He additionally slammed at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and Union Home Minister Amit Shah and stated, “Basavaraj Bommai miserably did not guard the hobby of Kannadigas. He has no enterprise to keep as CM. Modi and Shah are coming to Karnataka to get votes and declare it is a double-engine authorities however Maharashtra authorities is blatantly interfering with the liberty of the kingdom.”
Siddaramaiah additionally introduced that he treats all humans similarly and now no longer primarily based totally on which network they pick out with. “BJP is a sectarian birthday birthday celebration. Ours is a mundane birthday birthday celebration. There can not be any disparity a number of the humans of Karnataka. I deal with all humans similarly whether or not they belong to Hindu, Muslim, Christian, or another network or religion, I deal with all of them similarly”, he stated.
Siddaramaiah stated that there aren’t anyt any variations among him and Karnataka Congress president DK Shivakumar. “My dating with DK Shivakumar is cordial. There aren’t anyt any variations among us. Of course, variations exist in democracy however it isn’t always destructive to the pursuits of the birthday birthday celebration”, LoP introduced.
Siddaramaiah additionally hit out on the kingdom authorities’s choice to prohibit reservation of Muslims withinside the kingdom and stated “Recategorising (of reservation) isn’t always proper, now no longer constitutional. It isn’t always valid… We’ve no objection to growing the reservation of Vokkaliga & Lingayat however why you abolished the reservation of Muslims… It truly suggests vendetta, hate politics.”
Congress on Thursday introduced its 2nd listing of forty two applicants, for the Karnataka meeting elections however no choice has but been taken on who might contest from Kolar while Siddaramaiah has expressed a choice to contest from the constituency.
According to sources, the Congress pinnacle brass has requested Siddaramaiah to contest from his conventional stronghold of Varuna withinside the Mysuru district, in which his son health practitioner Yatindra Siddaramaiah gained withinside the 2018 Assembly Elections.
Sources stated that earlier, amid disagreementsbetween the birthday birthday celebration’s nearby leaders in Kolar, the Congress High Command had informed the seventy five-year-antique former leader minister to drop his plan to contest from the Kolar meeting segment
The Congress has additionally accommodated applicants who switched to the birthday birthday celebration from the BJP and the Janata Dal (Secular). The birthday birthday celebration is searching for to wrest strength from BJP withinside the kingdom in the imminent polls.
Meanwhile, former minister Vinay Kulkarni who has been named through Congress as its candidate from Dharwad constituency will need to marketing campaign remotely for the reason that Supreme Court has barred his access into the district after the CBI named him in reference to the 2016 homicide case of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker, Yogeeshgouda Goudar.
Kulkarni has been out on bail at the situation that he’s going to now no longer input the district nor will do something to tamper with the proof withinside the homicide case. Kulkarni turned into allegedly worried in reference to the homicide of Goudar, on June 15, 2016, after he defeated the rival Congress birthday birthday celebration candidate withinside the Zila Panchayat elections.
On Tuesday, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge stated that the birthday birthday celebration will behavior an in depth dialogue on applicants for the closing a hundred seats withinside the State. The Congress had on March 25 introduced its first listing of 124 applicants for the polls, which blanketed names of former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and State Party president DK Shivakumar.
Elections are slated to be held in Karnataka in a unmarried section on May 10, and the counting of votes will take location on May 13. Karnataka, which has 224 seats withinside the Assembly presently has 119 MLAs of the ruling BJP, whilst Congress has seventy five and its best friend JD(S) has 28 seats.
Political events withinside the State along with the ruling BJP, Congress and best friend JD(S) are engaged in a spate of allegations and counter-allegations, with the latter trying to nook the authorities over the problem of corruption.
Notably, whilst the competition Congress and Janata Dal Secular have introduced 166 and ninety three applicants respectively so far, the ruling BJP is but to announce its first listing of applicants for the 224-seat meeting elections in Karnataka. The version code of behavior had come into impact after elections had been introduced withinside the State.
