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‘Congress rally start of election campaign’

Bangalore: After the Dharmayuddha campaign by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the renewed village sojourn of the Janata Dal (Secular), it is the turn of the Congress to launch a people’s rally.

Announcing this at a meeting of the district unit presidents of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, the KPCC President and former minister M. Mallikarjun Kharge said that a massive people’s rally will be organised on November 5 at the Palace Grounds here.

The commissions and omissions of the JD(S)-BJP Government would be highlighted and the prolonged power struggle between them affecting the administration of the State, he added.

Apart from Mr. Kharge, the meeting was attended by former Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh, former ministers G. Parameshwar, Kagodu Thimmappa and Ramalinga Reddy and former Silk Board Chairman H. Hanumanthappa. Mr. Kharge said that Congress workers from six districts around Bangalore would attend the rally.

He also told the Congressmen to be ready for Legislative Assembly elections in the next six months. The rally, he said, would be the starting point of the campaign for the elections. About the opposition attack on the Congress misusing its position at the Centre to influence decisions at Raj Bhavan, Mr. Kharge said that it was a smear campaign and that Congress workers need not worry about it.

He said that Raj Bhavan was open to everybody. Any political party or leader could explain their problems or give suggestions to Governor Rameshwar Thakur, since the State was under President`s Rule. He said there was no meaning in making such frivolous charges against the Congress or the high office of the Governor. He said that the Congress candidates who won in the recent urban local body elections would be felicitated at the rally. He charged the JD(S) and the BJP with winning more wards using money and political power.

On the revamping of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, the President said that it was not on the party’s agenda. Instead, he said the State unit had sent the list of office bearers to the party high command and was waiting for its approval.

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