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Yediyurappa sees BJP wave in State

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‘We will win 50 per cent of the seats this time’

YADGIR (GULBARGA DISTRICT): Deputy Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Monday said that a BJP wave was sweeping the State and the party besides winning a majority of the city corporations, town municipal councils and city municipal councils and town panchayats, would garner more than 50 per cent of the seats for which elections are held.

Mr. Yediyurappa, who is on a hectic electioneering tour in a private helicopter, told presspersons here that the election results would teach a lesson to the Congress pushing it to a poor third position in all the urban local bodies. He said the performance of the BJP in the coalition Government was the solid foundation for the party’s growing popularity among the voters and the election results would prove it.

Mr. Yediyurappa politely refused to reply any questions regarding the transfer of power scheduled in October.

He also refused to reply to a question on the apprehension expressed by Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy about the transfer of power to the BJP after the attack on the house of the daughter of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi in Bangalore and the damage caused to a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation bus on the outskirts of Bangalore some days ago. “I will speak only after October 3, I have so many things to say…,” he said.

Meeting

Later, addressing a public meeting at Gandhi Chowk in Yadgir town, Mr. Yediyurappa criticised the Congress saying it could not do anything when it was in power all these years but was now accusing the BJP of doing nothing for the people.

Mr. Yediyurappa, without taking the names of the Janata Dal (S) leaders who disputed the claims of the BJP leaders that some of the welfare programmes such as banning the sale of arrack, lottery, increasing pension to aged persons, widows, physically challenged, writing off farmers loan and lowering the interest rate of loans availed of by farmers, pointed out that all these measures were not implemented by the coalition Government headed by N. Dharam Singh in which JD(S) was a partner.

They were being implemented only now by the coalition Government headed by the JD (S) and the BJP.

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