From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network
Mysuru, May 11: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday derided Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a 'master of lies' and accused him of trying to raise emotional issues and polarization of voters by raising the bogey of religion.
Speaking to media persons in his residence in Mysuru, he said the opposition parties are politically fighting its rivals and do not want to bury anybody.
Responding to Modi’s remark that the opposition parties are out to bury him and his emotional appeal to the people to protect him, Siddaramaiah said the Prime Minister’s “emotional blackmail” and the claims of opposition parties wanting to finish him, the Chief Minister said such tactics of emotional blackmail would not work as the people are smart enough to see through his gameplan.
Siddaramaiah said Modi has done nothing for the welfare of the poorer sections of the people during the last 10 years of his rule and is sensing his imminent defeat, which has prompted him to resort to emotional blackmail.
“The opposition parties want to defeat Modi politically. Our fight is political and not personal. The poorer sections and the downtrodden have not benefitted at all under the Modi regime. The people have seen the lies constantly spread by Modi and are determined to defeat him,” he said.
“Those who climb up, have to come down and Modi’s defeat is inevitable,” he warned.
Asked about senior BJP leader B S Yediyurappa’s demand for waiving farm loans and his threat to launch a state-wide agitation, Siddaramaiah said: “Yediyurappa has no moral right to speak about farm loans and demand waiver of farm loans. When he was in power, he had refused to accept the demand for farm loan waiver on the ground that the State Government does not have note printing machines.”
CM attends Srinivas Prasad condolence meeting
The Chief Minister later attended the condolence meeting convened for senior leader V Srinivas Prasad.
Buddhist monk Banteji Swamy, former BJP Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, Social Welfare Minister Dr H C Mahadevappa and other leaders participated.