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Daijiworld Media Network

Bengaluru, Mar 28: Lashing out at the ruling BJP for playing the political gimmicks of reservation to please communities and fixing huge sums of lacs or crores for recruitments in government jobs, JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy has promised to completely revamp the recruitment system and perform suitable surgery to the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) if his party forms the government.

Addressing the media at the party office in Bengaluru on Tuesday, he said the entire recruitment in the government jobs has been vitiated by the ruling party’s corruption.

Kumaraswamy urged the government to treat the attack on former chief minster B S Yediyurappa’s residence in Shikaripur very seriously and blamed the Basavaraj Bommai government for causing trouble over its muddled reservation policy.

The JD(S) leader declared that the party’s stand on reservation is strictly in accordance with the constitutional mandate and there should not be any attempts to create rivalry and animosity among castes and communities.

He accused the ruling BJP of deliberately trying to provoke the minority Muslim community by its political drama on reservation and depriving the reservation benefits granted several decades ago and thereby cause communal clashes and possibly deaths as part of its game plan of polarisation on the basis of religion.

BJP, Cong won’t cross 80 seats

Kumaraswamy welcomed the High Court’s decision on cancelling the anticipatory bail granted to BJP MLA Virupakshappa Madal and his arrest by the Lokayukta police.

“This BJP leader claims to be a arecanut grower and that he operates hundreds of crores of rupees in business. When arecanut growers are facing problems, how is that one ruling party leader is prosperous and carries out hundreds of crores of rupees in business? Even if his claims are true, how did the MLA keep crores of rupees in cash at his residence? What are the IT and ED authorities doing when this scam is going on? Let us see what happens next,” he said.

The former chief minister claimed that the national parties of BJP or Congress will not cross 80 seats and will not be able to form the government.