The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : `Sangharsha Yatra' begins today

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Friday, Oct 14, 2005

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`Sangharsha Yatra' begins today

Special Correspondent

The first public meeting will be at Malur in Kolar district and the yatra will end in Gadag on October 23

H.N. Ananth Kumar

BANGALORE: The State Bharatiya Janata Party leadership is embarking on a 10-day State-wide "Sangharsha Yatra" from Friday to highlight the failures of the coalition Government and also perhaps to make up for the ground lost by the party since the last Assembly and parliamentary elections.

The yatra, led among others by the State unit President Jagadish Shettar, all-India party General Secretary H.N. Ananth Kumar and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly B.S. Yediyurappa, will commence from the Banashankari Temple in Bangalore at 9.30 a.m.

The first public meeting will be at Malur in Kolar district from where the BJP won the Assembly election for the first time in 2004.

The yatra will culminate in Gadag on October 23.

Show of unity

The yatra is also going to be a show of unity by the top leaders who were at loggerheads in recent months.

It is also aimed at keeping the party in readiness for elections, particularly those to the zilla and the taluk panchayats.

The party is poorly represented in the panchayat raj bodies barring a few districts.

The BJP will highlight the failures of the Congress-Janata Dal (S) coalition on 12 fronts including the hike in prices of essential commodities, discontinuation of distribution of houses under various schemes, delay in execution of irrigation projects in the Krishna and Cauvery basins and delay in release of funds to gram panchayats.

The yatra will also demand the Government to take steps for road repairs, extension of the deadline for payment of crop loans without interest, distribution of ration cards to people living the below poverty line and regularisation of unauthorised agricultural lands.

Prominent party leaders, including Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council D.H. Shankaramurthy, Ramachandra Gowda, K.S. Eshwarappa, V.S. Acharya, S. Suresh Kumar, Ramesh Jigajinagi MP, C.T. Ravi, D.V. Sadananda Gowda, MP, Aravind Limbavali, Katta Subramanya Naidu, Vishveshvar Hegde, Govind Karjol, R. Ashok, and "Mukhyamantri" Chandru will participate in the yatra.

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