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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (DV)

Mangaluru, Feb 25: Bouyed by the results of the recent zilla and taluk panchayat elections in which BJP won a majority of the seats in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, BJP district president Pratap Simha Nayak on Thursday February 25 said that for the third time in the history of the district, BJP has brought the entire Dakshina Kannada zilla panchayat into its fold.

Addressing a press meet at the party office here, Nayak said, "People of Dakshina Kannada blessed BJP and rejected the ruling Congress for not responding to the people's needs and gave a fitting reply to the egoistic Congress leaders. BJP has been involved in organizing the party throughout the district since the last Assembly elections. This has yielded better results in the later elections like Mulky municipal, MP, MLC and now taluk and ZP elections.

"The ruling Congress party has failed to gain the 'ruling party advantage' in the TP/ZP elections. In the next Assembly elections BJP will show tremendous performance and people will bid goodbye to Congress," he said.

"Congress leaders have misused their power by delimitation of constituencies. The district-in-charge minister gave more priority to his constituency in delimitation of constituencies and thereby misused his power. He is discriminating against other constituencies by giving more importance to his own constituency.

"If the Congress leaders make any effort to have a ZP president from their party through backdoor politics using reservation quota, people of the district will not forgive them. People have made Congress sit in opposition," he added.

MLC Capt Ganesh Karnik and others were present.