Mangaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that efforts were on to disrupt peace and harmony in the earlier peaceful places like Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Kodagu.
He was speaking at a Congress convention in Adyar Garden.
“When there was repeated communal violence for political mileage by vested interests in the undivided Dakshina Kannada in 2013, the Congress had organised “Padayatre-Congerss Nadige Samarasyada Kadege.” In the elections, out of eight constituencies Congress won 7.
The Congress government waiving off farmers’ loans to he tune of Rs 8,157 Crore has benefited 22,27,506 lakh farmers.
Our government has fulfilled most of the assurances given to the people. Even in the forthcoming general election Congress will come to power and BJP is insecure. There is no JD (S) in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi or Kodagu”, said Siddaramaiah.
Commenting on the communal killings in undivided DK, he said that he had urged the police department department to take stern action against those who provoke and create communal tension in the district.
“This is not Uttar Pradesh. BJP’s polarisation of society in the name of Hindutva doesn’t work in Karnataka which is the land of Basavanna and Shiva Sharanas”, he said.
Commenting on Modi-led BJP government he said the assured Achhe Din of Narendra Modi had become Bure Din for the people.
He also called upon the party workers and leaders to work with responsibility and never allow communal BJP to come to power. He predicted that in 2019, Congress government would come to power in the centre with Rahul Gandhi as prime minister.
KPCC President Dr. G Parameshwara said Dakshina Kannada was a district of peace. Since the past few years communal elements had surfaced to create unrest in the society, he lamented.
Supporting the Pejawara seer for his Ifthar programme in Udupi temple premises he said that it was unfortunate that the people of his own community and party were blaming and insulting the Seer for doing the right thing. Insulting a seer is really a shameful act, he added.
“Congress party workers should tell the people that Congress believes in true principles of secularism. Those who propagate communalism by provoking the people are fanatics. In the entire India, it is the fight between communalism and secularism. It is a fight between BJP and Congress”, he said.
“What assurance we had given to the people prior to the elections have been successfully fulfilled by the CM. No government has done this before”, he claimed.
He also challenged the BJP to prepare a list of what they had done in five years before pointing fingers at Congress.
“Each and every leader and activist should work to form booth committees and agents by July 30 in all the 66,000 booths in the state. Congress workers should sincerely work for the party and should expose the facade of BJP.
If Congress does not come to power again in the centre BJP will make this country ‘Dewali’,” he said.
Karnataka Congress In-charge K C Venugopal, District In-charge Minister B Ramanath Rai, Food and Civil Supplies Minister U T Khader, Minister Pramod Madhwaraj, former union minister Veerappa Moily, Puttur MLA Shakunthala Shetty, Belthangady MLA Vasanth Bangera, MLA Abhayachandra Jain, KPCC Working President Dinesh Gundu Rao, District Congress President Harish Kumar and others were present.
