CDA Chairman Nagaraj Shetty to leave the BJP

CDA Chairman Nagaraj Shetty to leave the BJP

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, July 14, 2012 : Nagaraj Shetty, chairman of the Coastal Development Authority (CDA), announced that he will resign from not only his present post, but also the primary membership of the Bharathiya Janatha Party (BJP).

 

Addressing a press conference at Press Club on July 14, Saturday, he said that the days when BJP activists were ready to build the party in exchange for only biscuits and water are now gone. Expressing his unhappiness over party members’ greed for posts, he said that he has decided to quit the BJP and spend the rest of his life as a social worker.

 

 

Stating that he is fed up of politics, he said that he will not contest any more elections in future. He said that he had submitted his resignation to the chief minister yesterday and that he will send another copy to the CM and his supporters tomorrow.

Revealing that the BSR and the JD(S) have invited him to join them, he said that he has not made any decision so far.

Stating that caste politics was initially  confined only to the Gowdas and Lingayats, he said that the BJP has lit the caste fire in the coastal region too. Stating that BJP workers of Udupi and DK never thought in terms of caste, he said that the Billawa community whole-heartedly supported Nalin Kumar Kateel when he contested. When Jayaprakash Hegde and Sunil Kumar were contesting, he had visited several Bunt homes and urged them to vote for Kumar, he added.

When asked if he is willing to apologize to minority communities, which had suffered greatly during the communal riots that took place when the BJP was in power, he said that communal riots have been taking place even before the BJP came to power, but the BJP did its best to control them.