Congress to hold protest rally on Nov 7 against BJP Govt.

Mangalore, Nov 4 : Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister B Janardhan Poojary today said that a huge protest rally would be held here on November 7 in protest against the BJP government's alleged failure to take up relief works in the flood affected villages of North Karnataka.

Addressing a press conference here, Mr Poojary charged that the governance in the state had totally collapsed and it is now in the death bed. The state government should have taken up the relief work on war footing, but on the contrary it was totally immersed in internal conflicts. The ministers and other officials who should have taken up relief work on emergency have failed to turn up in the flood affected districts which was visible with the absence of several MPs, MLAs and ministers at the meeting convened by the Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in Gadag.

He charged that Mr Yeddyurappa was the worst chief minister ever seen by Karnataka. "If he (Mr Yeddyurappa) had slightest regard for democracy, he should immediately resign to his post. However, the Congress party on its own will not demand the resignation of the chief minister. The government will soon fall on its own due to its internal squabbles," he added.

Referring to a statement made by the RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat recently that the BJP had become sick and require major treatment like radiation or chemotherapy, Mr Poojary ridiculed that radiation or chemotherapy would be administered only for the cancer patient when he was in the advanced stage. BJP government in Karnataka will become the first casualty to its party, he predicted.

He said that Reddy brothers are the creation of Mr Yeddyurappa who took their monetary help during 'Operation Lotus' one and half year back to woo the MLAs from other parties. It had now boomeranged him. During the BJP rule in the state, the chief minister had murdered all democratic principles by using money power of Reddys to cling to power, he alleged.

--UNI

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