Mangalore: BJP's 'Gujarat Model' Showing Results in State - Deve Gowda
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, Sep 17: Ex-prime minister and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda visited seven places including churches, Bishop's House and hospitals in the city on Wednesday September 17.
Addressing a press conference at the end of his visits, Gowda said that the atrocities unleashed on the Christians in the city and elsewhere in the state, were part of the state-sponsored terrorism unleashed by the communal government. Yeddyurappa has been claiming repeatedly, that he will follow the Gujarat model of rule. The tragic incidents that have shook the city and other places are the result of his following Gujarat model, he charged. The heinous act of breaking down Lord Jesus's hand was committed by some purverted persons with sick minds,he thundered.
BJP's national executive was held at Bangalore and ex-deputy prime minister L K Advani participated in it. He came to know about the happenings here, but failed to utter a single word against them. Instead, he simply advised the BJP government to continue with what they have been doing during their 100-day rule, Gowda chided.
Hitting hard at the state government led by the BJP, Deve Gowda said, that the state government is totally focussing its attention on the coming Lok Sabha elections and that the party is trying to transform Karnataka into a laboratory of Hinduism for that sake. Noting that Hindu activists had engineered the trouble here, he wondered as to how can the number of Christians arrested has far outnumbered their Hindu counterparts. The Catholics were protesting peacefully and how did the situation turned violent, making them to resort to stone-pelting?, he questioned, suspecting the dubious role played by the policemen in the developments.
"Yeddyurappa does not tire of frequently referring to religious conversions. Let him investigate and provide figures of such conversions during the 100-day rule of the BJP in the state," he demanded. Gowda said, that himself and other leaders have demanded for a judicial probe into these disturbances, but the chief minister has shot down the proposals. "If the government does not relent and agree for a judicial probe, we will continue to hold peaceful protests, till the chief minister changes his mind," Gowda announced.
"We have been working hard to uphold the dignity and secular standing of the country. At the same time, the BJP has been working day and night to tarnish the country's reputation. We will not allow the country's image to get a beating because of the BJP. It will not be allowed to crush the minorities. Deve Gowda is not a spent Force. I will prove my mettle in the coming days," a spirited Gowda announced at the press conference.
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