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Congress leaders hit out at Venkaiah

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BANGALORE: Five Congress leaders have lashed out at Venkaiah Naidu, MP and senior vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), over his allegedly calling Governor Rameshwar Thakur “a Congress agent.”

V.S. Ugrappa, Prakash Rathod and N. Manjunath, MLCs, the former Minister Sagir Ahmed and Venkateshwar, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee secretary, told mediapersons here on Tuesday that Congress leaders had met the Governor to apprise him of grievances of people such as sugarcane growers and that BJP and Janata Dal (Secular) leaders were also free to meet him.

They said that the Congress need not learn from Mr. Naidu, “who could not win an election and had to come to Karnataka for getting a seat in Parliament.” The detection of over 50 lakh bogus voters, with whose support the two parties had won a large number of wards in urban local bodies, was an indication of how they ran the Government, the leaders said.

Mr. Ugrappa urged the Union Government and the Election Commission to implement the Kuldip Singh Commission recommendations on delimitation of Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies, before holding Assembly elections.

Dalit uplift

Mr. Ugrappa charged the BJP with shedding crocodile tears for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and asked why then its leaders had not urged either the President or Prime Minister to implement the delimitation panel’s recommendations to provide social justice to the Dalit community. They had rushed to New Delhi parading the MLAs for coming to power in the State, he added.

The Congress leaders urged Railway Minister Lalu Prasad to hold a single written test and interview at one place for all categories of vacant posts in the States soon. This would ensure that , all vacant posts vacant in a State were filled by people of the same place.

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