The Congress party is busy brainstorming in Karnataka to change its strategies. The reason is the stupendous success of the rally addressed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The huge turnout at the rally and expose of the corrupt Congress Government by the PM has left the Congress Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his colleagues to scout for newer strategies to counter the surging BJP in the State.
It is learnt that the Chief Minister has put the entire official machinery to come out with better strategies. Somehow, it is also a failure on part of the Siddaramaiah Government which had tried every trick it knew to foil the PM”s rally on February 4 but miserably failed.
Initially, they tried to unnecessarily pull the PM”s name in the Mahadayi controversy. Then, the Congress Government tried to give an indirect support to those who wanted to call for a Bengaluru bandh when the PM arrived. It looked like a clear case that the Congress Government was afraid of the PM and hence wanted to shut Bengaluru to stop the turn out. However, local BJP was committed to mobilise people and thankfully, they got a court order which said the bandh was unlawful.
More than the local BJP leaders” efforts, it was a growing affection of people of Karnataka who thronged from distant places just to listen to their beloved PM. Though the PM”s speech was scheduled in the late afternoon, thousands of people had turned up at the venue since the morning. The crowd was such that by and large it was one of the biggest political gatherings in the recent times. Even when the PM was speaking, the crowd cheered him for every word he spoke.
Sources said that it was not just the BJP supporters but even the State Ministers were glued to TV sets to listen to what the PM had said (the best example was Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president had to hurriedly call up press conference).
Law and order situation is worsening in the Congress rule day-by-day. Leader of opposition in Karnataka Assembly Jagadish Shettar said that 26 BJP, RSS, Hindu activists had been killed, in which Popular Front of India (PFI) was involved.
Speaking in Karnataka Assembly on February 6, he alleged that the Congress Government lacks guts to recommend to the Centre to ban PFI and its associate organisations and accused it of indulging in communal, vote bank and hate politics.
The law and order is crumbling and one more BJP worker was killed in Bengaluru. A 28-year-old BJP party worker, Santosh was hacked to death by a four-member gang when he was returning home last week.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar and BJP leader Muralidhar Rao visited the residence of Santosh to offer condolences to the bereaved family. Meanwhile in a recent development, Independent MLA Halady Srinivas Shetty resigned from Karnataka Assembly to join BJP. Shetty, who represents Kundapur segment in Udupi district said he was joining BJP to fulfill the wishes of his people. -Guruprasad from Bengaluru
