The Hindu : Karnataka / Mangalore News : BJP banking on anti-Congress forces

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Karnataka

Karnataka - Mangalore

BJP banking on anti-Congress forces

By Our Staff Correspondent

MANGALORE, APRIL 23. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State unit President, H.N. Ananth Kumar, has claimed that the BJP victory in the State was certain as all the pre-1983 anti-Congress forces had now joined hands with the party and the voters too craved for a change.

Mr. Ananth Kumar told presspersons here that the polarisation of voters and anti-Congress forces in the State indicated that the BJP would form the Government in the State.

He said the Congress had already lost the elections in the State as the northern Karnataka belt had turned towards the BJP where top leaders of the All India Progressive Janata Dal (AIPJD) had joined the Janata Dal (United).

In coastal Karnataka and the old Mysore region, the BJP had gained. But after the elections, the Congress would cease to be a national party.

Mr. Ananth Kumar said the present polarisation was towards better administration and development. When the governments at the Centre and the State belonged to the same party or political fronts, the administration did not suffer.

It was true that the BJP believed in autonomy for the Centre and the State governments from each other.

The BJP leader said his party aimed at giving the State its due share of development right from water, power, employment, social justice and empowerment of the weaker classes.

Muslims in the State had responded to a call to support the BJP, he added.

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