Heavy Rains in State : 'My prayers Reached God' says Yeddy
From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network
BANGALORE, JUL 7: With monsoon, which started playing truant after an early start, reviving and Karnataka receiving copious rains during the last few days in several parts of the state, Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has claimed that his pilgrimage to temples to pray for rains had borne fruit.
``My prayers have reached God,’’ he said pointing out that the bountiful rains and the heavy inflows into most of the reservoirs had silenced the critics, especially the opposition parties for ridiculing him.
``When I went to temples, several people criticised me and wondered if it is possible to get rains by offering prayers. But I was confident. Now the dams are getting filled up,’’ he said pointing out that Gods will answer the sincere prayers of his devotees.
Yeddyurappa indicated that he would start visiting the state BJP office at least once a week and interact with party workers to hear their grievances. ``I will spend at least an hour during my visits to the party office,’’ he said commencing his programme on Tuesday for launching the state-level membership enrollment drive.
The chief minister’s promise to visit the state BJP office and hold interactions with the party workers every week comes at a time when the government is forced to make plans for holding elections to the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, which is overdue in one pretext or the other for almost three years now.
The Karnataka High Court has directed the government to hold BBMP polls by Jul1y. Though the delimitation of wards after increasing the number from 147 to 198 has been completed, the process of reservation of wards is yet to be completed. A question mark hangs on the conduct of polls within the stipulated deadline.
Yeddyurappa, incidentally, indicated that he has directed all his ministerial colleagues to hold similar interaction with the party workers in districts whenever they were on tour.
The ruling party has set an ambitious target of enrolling 25 lakh members as part of the membership drive to mark the birth anniversary of Bharatiya Jan Sangh founder Shyama Prasad Mookerjee. Such campaigns are launched once in three years as the membership has to be renewed every three years.
Yeddyurappa himself enrolled afresh to become the party member during the launch of the membership drive.
The party has given a target of enrolling at least 50 members to each of its workers. The chief minister asked partymen to ensure that at least 20 of the enrolled members were new members.
He stressed the need for including slum leaders into the party organisation so that a majority of slum dwellers will follow their leaders into the party fold. There was a dire need to include leaders from all sections to the party fold so that all communities could feel that the BJP is their party.
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