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Yeddyurappa hits out at ‘vote bank politics’ in State

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Karnataka Chief Minister says there is no vote bank politics in his State.

KASARAGOD: Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa has accused the Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) of indulging in ‘vote bank politics’ in Kerala.

Addressing an election rally for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate here on Friday, Mr. Yeddyurappa said there was no ‘vote bank politics’ in Karnataka as the BJP-led government was not dividing the people along religious or caste unlike in Kerala where both the Congress and the CPI(M) were indulging in communal appeasement.

The Karnataka Chief Minister, who reached here in a helicopter from Mangalore in the evening, told the gathering that the Bhagyalakshmi Yojna launched by the Karnataka government was a boon to girls.

He said that under this scheme, a deposit of Rs.20,000 made in the name of a girl child would allow the beneficiary to get Rs.1,10,000 when she was 18.

The Karnataka government was also offering farm loan to farmers at an interest rate of three per cent while it was nine per cent in Kerala. Handicapped people were being given a pension of Rs.1,000, he said.

He said many of the operatives of the terror network in Kerala were arrested by the Karnataka police. He urged the electorate in the Kasaragod Lok Sabha constituency to cast their votes for BJP candidate K. Surendran.

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