Mangalore: BJP gets ready for polls, says ULB result a 'warning bell'

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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (DV)

Mangalore, Mar 22: The district unit of BJP on Friday March 22 congratulated the newly-appointed state BJP president MP Prahlad Joshi.

Addressing a press meet at the party office, district BJP president Padmanabha Kottary said that the BJP government is completely prepared for the forthcoming state Assembly elections.

"We have already started our election campaign. On March 29 the district BJP unit will hold a convention at Nehru Maidan at 4 pm. All state leaders of BJP party as well as members from all booths of Dakshina Kannada will take part in this programme," he said.

"The party will prepare for the elections based on the achievements of the state government over the past five years. The selection process of candidates in the eight constituencies of Dakshina Kannada is complete. We are confident that the voters will bless us," he said.

He also pointed out the corruption allegations against Veerappa Moily and said, "Moily was present at the oath-taking programme against corruption organized by the district Congres party recently, but on the very next day we heard that Moily was involved in corruption. Now even Moily has joined the chain of corruption cases like 2G, Adarsh housing, Commonwealth Games, chopper deal, Vadra issue, farmers' debt waiver scam."

"The UPA government silenced Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare who were against the corruption. What can this type of government give to the people? What does Janardhana Poojary have to say on this issue? Does the Congress have any morality?" he lashed out.

"The state government has provided Kumki land to framers, and more than 3 lac farmers of Dakshina Kannada have benifited from it," he said.


"ULB Elections a Warning Bell to BJP"

Prathap Simha Nayak, district BJP in-charge said, "Our strategy for election is all chalked out. Chief minister Jagadish Shettar, Ananth Kumar, Eshwarappa, D V Sadananda Gowda and other prominent leaders will take part in the March 29 convention. Ten members from every booth will be attending this mass convention," he said.

Answering questions from media media persons, Prathap Simha Nayak said the urban local body elections was a warning bell to us. We have introspected and found that there were many reasons why we failed. This time the party has given tickets to those who are strong in their ideology and symbolise the party's principles. To some extent we failed to uphold our party's ideology but this time it will not happen.

"Though there is lot of corruption in the UPA government, people criticize BJP because they expect high standard of politics from the BJP party," he said.

Sanjeeva Mantandoor, Yogaraj Shetty, Franklin Monteiro and Raj Gopal Rai were present.