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‘Election results not a referendum on governance'

SHIMOGA: State BJP president K.S. Eshwarappa said here on Sunday that the results of the elections to the taluk and zilla panchayats would not be considered as a referendum on the administration of the State Government.

Talking to presspersons here, he said that each election had its own significance and the result of it could not be taken as a reflection on governance.

He said that the BJP would fight the elections on the plank of the achievements of its Government. He expressed the confidence that the party would register a resounding victory in these elections. He said that the achievements of the Government had evoked a good response from the people. He said that the list of the party's candidates prepared taking the views of all those who mattered in the party, into consideration would be announced in a day or two.

When his attention was drawn to the reported remark by senior party leader L.K. Advani that the party's leadership would keep a close watch on the Government, Mr. Eshwarappa observed that it could not be construed as the Government's “failure”.

He, however, said that it could not be said that everything was well within the party.

He said the manner in which the party disqualified its 11 MLAs showed that it would brook no indiscipline any more.

He said that all the party MLAs were with the BJP without buckling under the pressure tactics resorted to by the Opposition parties.

Mr. Eshwarappa alleged that the Congress and the Janata Dal(S) had not desisted from luring the BJPs MLAs to join them even after suffering defeats in one election after another.

He said that they kept on making “false” allegations against Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and others.

He said that Janata Dal(S) chief H.D. Deve Gowda had tried to make “baseless” and “false” allegations against the Government but the manner in which his party was trounced in the elections to the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike proved that there was no substance in them with the people rejecting his party so convincingly.

Mr. Eshwarappa said that the Ministry would be expanded soon after the panchayatraj elections were over. He hinted that the districts not represented so far in the Cabinet would get a berth in the Ministry.

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