Forget the past. Give us one more chance : BJP chief Prahlad Joshi

Forget the past. Give us one more chance : BJP chief Prahlad Joshi

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Mar 30, 2013: This time the BJP is seeking votes in the name of development and with a promise that it will not repeat its mistakes, said Karnataka BJP President Prahlad Joshi.

He was addressing the Vijaya Sankalpa Samavesh organised by the Party at the Nehru Maidan here on March 29, Friday, to kickstart its campaign for the upcoming elections to the State Assembly. Continuing, Joshi questioned why the UPA government cannot waive farm loans when the BJP government led by Sadananda Gowda in the past and Shettar now could do so.

 

 Claiming that it was the BJP government which for the first ever time released  Rs 200 crore for the development of all city corporations, he said no Congress government could this accomplish.

Joshi described  Shettar, DVS, Ashok, Eshwarappa and Ananth Kumar as Panchapandavas of the BJP government and compared  the party workers to charioteers.

The BJP leader also spoke in length about the various scams that has rocked the UPA Government at the Centre. He at the same time admitted that the  problems that confronted the BJP government in Karnataka had initially landed people of the state in confusion.

Deputy Chief Minister R Ashok urged party men to fight unitedly for the  party’s victory in assembly polls. He made a mockery of  Congress leaders stating majority of them were camping in Delhi and were fighting for tickets . He was all praise of the BJP government and said it had done record developmental works.

Former CM DV Sadananda Gowda who also spoke decided to take a dig at senior Congress leader Janardhan Poojari and challenged him to list out the achievements of the Congress rule in the past 50 years and compare it to the achievement of the BJP government in five years.

He said the BJP will turn Karnataka into a fully developed state if people give it another opportunity.  

Nalin Kumar Kateel, MP, also spoke on the occasion.BJP leaders Yogish Bhat, Krishna J Palemar, Mallika Prasad, Angara, Sulochana Bhat, Capt Ganesh Karnik, Monappa Bhandary, Rukmaya Poojary,  Pratap Sinha Nayak and others were present.

Nagaraj Shetty who quit JD(S) recently, Kutharguttu Chandrahas Adyantaya, Dinesh Kayarmar, Akbar Badshah Suralpady, Narasimha Hegde, Preetham Shetty, Siddu and Nonaiah joined BJP on this occasion.