Sonia Gandhi accused BJP leaders of being “egoistic”
Hubbali, Karnataka:
In a scathing assault on the BJP, senior Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Saturday mentioned Karnataka and the remainder of the nation can’t make progress with out eliminating the ruling celebration’s “loot, lies, ego and hatred”.
Making her maiden entry into the 2023 Karnataka Assembly ballot battle right here, Sonia additionally mentioned the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by her son Rahul Gandhi a number of months in the past was in opposition to these spreading hatred. “This was the rationale that lakhs of individuals joined Rahul Gandhi’s 4,000 km march”.
“Neither Karnataka nor India could make progress with out eliminating the ambiance of BJP’s loot, lies, ego and hatred,” Sonia Gandhi mentioned in her first public rally within the poll-bound state, which votes on May 10.
The former Congress president mentioned: “It is everybody’s accountability to strengthen our voice in opposition to this (BJP) authorities’s darkish rule.” She was flanked on the stage by Congress President M Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar who lately stop BJP over the denial of ticket and joined the celebration. The celebration has fielded Jagadish Shettar, a six-time MLA, from Hubli-Dharwad Central constituency, from the place he had received the earlier Assembly polls in 2018.
Sonia Gandhi mentioned folks have seen how rattled the BJP was on this election attributable to which it has resorted to all “sorts of repression”.
“Don’t you are feeling that dacoity has change into the enterprise of these in energy? You had not given them energy in 2018 however they robbed the federal government and captured it. Then, their 40 per cent fee authorities obtained busy in looting,” she charged.
Accusing BJP leaders of being “egoistic”, she mentioned they neither reply any questions nor any letter addressed to them.
Sonia Gandhi made an oblique reference to the letter written by the contractors’ affiliation in Karnataka to the Prime Minister about 40 per cent fee being charged from them for public works within the state.
“They (BJP leaders) will not be bothered about accountability. They assume that they’ve pocketed all of the constitutional establishments. I wish to ask you whether or not you have got ever seen such arbitrariness. Does democracy perform like this? No,” Sonia Gandhi mentioned.
According to her, the scenario immediately is such that the BJP leaders brazenly subject threats that if their celebration doesn’t win the Karnataka election then the state is not going to get the “blessings” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Referring to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s assertion in an election rally that there might be riots in Karnataka if Congress involves energy within the state, Sonia Gandhi, with out naming him, mentioned: “They say that if the BJP loses, then there might be riots right here. On your behalf, I wish to inform them to not deal with the folks of Karnataka as powerless and helpless.” The folks of the state don’t rely upon anybody’s blessings however depend on their laborious work and agency choices, she underlined.
“The folks of Karnataka will not be cowardly and grasping as a way to induce them. The folks of Karnataka will inform you on May 10 what they’re product of.” Sonia Gandhi additionally raised the problem of the alleged try of merging Karnataka Milk Federation’s Nandini model with Gujarat-based Amul.
“The time has come now to inform them (BJP) that they won’t succeed right here of their conspiracy to loot an excellent establishment like Nandini (Karnataka Milk Federation’s cooperative dairy model), ignoring the pursuits of lakhs of farmers and milk producers,” she mentioned.
Sonia Gandhi additionally appealed to the folks to remind these in energy that the destiny of the leaders is determined by the blessings of the folks and never the opposite method spherical.
Invoking the identify of twelfth century social reformer Basaveshwara, she mentioned ‘Bhagwan Basavanna’ at all times favoured equal alternatives to everybody with none discrimination.
Sonia Gandhi mentioned the BJP has been insulting the good Kannada poet Kuvempu and cautioned them in opposition to “enjoying with the historical past of India and the a whole bunch of years previous custom of social justice”.
“To meet your (BJP) political pursuits, do not push the nation and Karnataka in the direction of destruction,” the Congress chief mentioned.
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