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We will change Bangalore’s picture if voted to power: BJP

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Kumaraswamy failed to find solution to the city’s problems: Yeddyurappa

The former MP M. Srinivas returns to the BJP
BJP leaders attack Deve Gowda and his sons

BANGALORE: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday declared that, if voted to power in the ensuing elections to the State Assembly, it would change the very picture of Bangalore within a year.

The former Chief Minister and BJP leader B.S. Yeddyurappa made this promise while addressing a party workers’ meeting organised here to mark the return of former MP and three-time MLA M. Srinivas to the BJP along with his followers.

Mr. Yeddyurappa said he would provide “solace” to Bangaloreans within a year in co-ordination with his party colleague H.N. Ananth Kumar who has held the central portfolio of Urban Development.

He charged the former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, who also held the Urban Development portfolio, with failure in finding a solution to the problems of Bangalore. He claimed that he had made an effort for finding a solution to Bangalore’s woes in his short stint as Chief Minister.

Mr. Yeddyurappa called upon party workers and leaders to strive for ensuring a clean sweep of all the 28 Lok Sabha seats in the State to help senior leader L.K. Advani become Prime Minister. He claimed that the country was gripped by the BJP wave.

Continuing the attack against Janata Dal (Secular) president H.D. Deve Gowda and his sons, Mr. Yeddyurappa said Mr. Gowda had taught the art of betrayal to his sons like tigers and lions teaching the art of hunting to their cubs. He termed the failure of the Janata Dal (Secular) to keep its word on transfer of power to the BJP as betrayal to the people of the entire State and not just to the BJP.

It was party general secretary Ananth Kumar who launched a virulent attack against Mr. Gowda and his sons. He said the countdown had begun for the end of Deve Gowda’s political career. After the elections, the people of the State would not allow him and his sons to take up any political activity, he said.He accused Mr. Gowda of failure in protecting the interests of the State in irrigation, drinking water and boundary issue when he was Prime Minister. It was the Vajpayee Government which gave permission for the fourth stage of Cauvery water supply scheme for Bangalore, he said.

Praise

Interestingly, both Mr. Yeddyurappa and Mr. Kumar showered lavish praise on each other. Mr. Yeddyurappa said it was Mr. Kumar who had suggested that he should take up the portfolio of Finance. Reciprocating, Mr. Kumar compared the pair of Yeddyurappa and himself in the State to that of central leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L. K. Advani.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Srinivas who was Janata Dal (Secular) State unit vice-president, alleged that Mr. Gowda had deserted him after taking him into the party fold. The Janata Dal (Secular) would be swept away in the next elections, he said.

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