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Youth disillusioned with JD(S)-BJP: Congress

Krishna Byre Gowda

DAVANGERE: The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Janata Dal (Secular) have ruined the sanctity of politics by their whimsical actions in the last 20 months, president of the State Youth Congress Krishna Byre Gowda has said. Inaugurating the “Yuva Chaitanya” jatha here on Monday, he said Karnataka had become a laughing stock nation-wide owing to their [the two parties] behaviour. The people of the State, particularly the youth, were disillusioned with their politics.

He also said that the BJP, which claimed to be a disciplined party, had kept aside its principles and ideologies and accepted whatever conditions put forth by the Janata Dal (S), in a bid to grab power. The Janata Dal (S), which had promised its coalition partner support, kept on dilly-dallying instead of being committed.

He asked why leaders of the two parties were keen only on “powerful portfolios” instead of taking up assignments in the Agriculture or Cooperation Ministries.

This showed that they were not bothered about the welfare of farmers. Mr. Krishna Byre Gowda said that the Janata Dal (S) had dug its own grave by its greed for power, and added that Karnataka hitherto known for its value-based politics was degenerating into an all-time low political abyss.

The people had also realised the true intentions of the BJP, when B.S. Yeddyurappa, who after touching the feet of Siddaganga Swamiji and pledging to take out a State-wide rally explaining how the Janata Dal (S) had cheated it, had cancelled it to return to Bangalore, in the wake of the “offers” made by Janata Dal (S) leaders with regard to government formation.

The BJP had been trying to divide the country on communal lines, he said and added that it had been raising issues such as the Ram Mandir and Ramar Sethu only to derive political mileage from them. The BJP, which could not even withstand people of different communities praying jointly at the Datta Peeta in Chikmagalur, had made a political issue out of it, he said.

Mr. Krishna Byre Gowda called upon the Congress workers to go to the hobli-level and understand the problems of the people and make efforts to solve them.

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