Daijiworld Media Network - Tumakuru (SP)

Tumakuru, Feb 9: "JDS is involved with the task of breaking homes. The father-children combination which runs the JDS habitually feeds on post-funeral feasts. They are never satisfied with the feasts served in marriages and festivals," commented Karnataka chief minister, Siddaraiah, launching a tirade full of sarcastic comments against JDS supremo, Deve Gowda, and his children, H D Kumaraswamy, and H D Revanna.

He was addressing the gathering after inaugurating 'Grama Swaraj convention' organized here in the backdrop of coming zilla and taluk panchayat elections.

"Kumaraswamy lacks knowledge about the presence of issues and programmes based on ideologies and policies. The comments he passes at me about the cost of watch and spectacles worn by me show that he does not have any other issues to harp on. He never bases his talk on ideologies and principles. JDS, which takes pride in claiming itself a secular party, has mostly pitted minority candidates against Congress candidates deliberately. I can swear that JDS candidates will lose their deposits in all the three elections being held shortly," he commented.

He said that JDS had won four seats in legislative council election on the basis of money power and not because of support of voters. "JDS leaders are not bothered about the carcass of a huge rat that is present on the plantain leaf laid out before them, but they do not fail to find out even minuscule dead insects on the plates of others," he commented, referring to a popular Kannada adage.

Targetting BJP thereafter, he questioned the party as to whether it could breath any vigour into the farmers through its 'Raita Chaitanya Yatra'. Blaming BJP leaders of reaping benefit in the name of farmers, he said that both BJP and JDS do not have the moral right to seek votes in the elections.

Stating that Panchayat Act was brought into force by his party, which also provided social justice to people and reservation for women, he questioned about the achievements of JDS and BJP.

Leader of Congress parliamentary party in the Lok Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, criticized Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, of repeatedly blaming Gandhi family for the country's ills. He sought to know from Modi who among the BJP and RSS cadres had fought for country's freedom, and how many of them had sacrificed their lives and property for the country like Congress leaders.