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‘BJP and JD(S) are only interested in grabbing power’ AHINDA leaders seek greater representation Chitradurga: K.M. Mukudappa, State president of AHINDA, a federation of backward classes, minorities and Dalits, has called upon its supporters to work towards strengthening secular parties such as the Congress in the coming Assembly elections. Mr. Mukudappa, who was on a tour of the State to garner support for the party, told presspersons here on Friday that he was seeking a mandate for the Congress. Terming the Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal (Secular) as two faces of same coin, he alleged that those parties were only interested grabbing power, and not the welfare of the downtrodden. Reacting to allegations of the BJP that the Congress was using the backward classes and minorities as a mere vote bank, he said it was the BJP which was playing “vote bank politics” by holding Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes conventions in the State. “The BJP has been opposing reservations for backward classes for the past nine years. It has never bothered about the advancement of Dalits and minorities. Today, when these communities have realised their power, the BJP is trying to woo them. How else does one explain the sudden realisation of their importance,” he asked. Making similar accusations against the Janata Dal (Secular), Mr. Mukudappa said it was the former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda who had opposed the formation of AHINDA when the former Deputy Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was in favour of it. He said that Mr. Siddaramaiah would visit Chitradurga on Wednesday as part of a State-wide election campaign. He urged the Congress to give greater representation to candidates from AHINDA.
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