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Congress leaders take on BJP

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Bangalore: V.S. Ugrappa, MLC, and the former Legislative Council Chairman B.L. Shankar, spokesmen of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, on Friday said that their party would give good governance, provide succour to the poor and take the country on the secular path, without alienating any caste or community.

They were responding to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s statement that a Congress government could not perform as well as Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi did in his State.

Answer to criticism

To the criticism of BJP leaders H.N. Ananth Kumar and B.S. Yeddyurappa that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was here on Thursday, did not have the courage to show his face to the people and chose to address a small meeting here, the Congress leaders pointed it out that it was the BJP that should be afraid of going to the voters, with a “heavy baggage” of 20-month misrule.

On the charge of the Bahujan Samaj Party leader H.N. Nanje Gowda against the Election Commission that it discriminated between Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati during their election campaigns by seizing only the vehicles of the latter, they said the Congress had taken permission for the vehicles used.

Meanwhile, they have complained to the Election Commission that the former Minister and BJP candidate for the Hebbal Assembly constituency Katta Subramanya Naidu had brought thousands of people from Andhra Pradesh and lodged them in a city hotel to be drafted for election malpractices on Saturday.

In Nagalamadike hobli and Y.N. Hoskote of Pavagada taluk also, a large number of people from the neighbouring State had been seen, they complained.

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