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Congress agenda for Budget session

CHINCHOLI (GULBARGA DISTRICT): Congress leader M. Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday said that Padmapriya case would be one of the prime issues along with farmers’ agitation to be raised by the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly during the Budget session which starts on Monday.

Mr. Kharge, who flew in here in a private helicopter to call on the family of a farmer who committed suicide in Polakpalli village in Chincholi taluk on Wednesday, told presspersons that the Congress would raise these issues in the Assembly and seek discussion on them through an adjournment motion. The handling of the Padmapriya case, particularly by Home Minister V.S. Acharya, had come in for sharp criticism from the Congress which has demanded that the case be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation.

On the reported moves of the Bharatiya Janata Party to break the Congress, Mr. Kharge said, “The BJP is daydreaming of breaking the Congress Legislature Party”. No Congress leader, including the former Deputy Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and MLA Somanna, was leaving the party, he said and added that these leaders had secular background and they would never think of joining the communal BJP.

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