Congress vote bank politics criticized

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a campaign rally in Sirsi in Uttara Kannada district, where he sought votes for party nominees Vishveshwara Hegde from Uttara Kannada and Prahlad Joshi from Dharwad.

In Karnataka, the Congress government’s maladministration is not only increasing crime rates but also emboldening the criminal elements. Law and order have completely broken down.

“Before 2014, newspapers were full of headlines of bomb blasts. Now, they have all stopped. But when the Congress comes to power, there is a bomb blast in Bengaluru. Unfortunately, some Congress leaders suspected it was a gas cylinder blast. Have they gone off their mind? The real accused were traced only when the NIA intervened,” he said.

He claimed that Congress sought the support of banned organizations like PFI to win the Wayanad seat.

“Joining such anti-national forces like PFI is the track record of the Congress, while our track record is to ban the organization and arrest its leaders,” he said.

He said that the Congress had not only tried to disrupt the construction of the Ayodhya Ram temple but also insulted it once it was built.

“Our ancestors had been fighting for the temple for 500 years. Lakhs sacrificed their lives. The decision to build it should have been taken the day after independence. But it was not. It takes a person with a chest size of 56 inches to build the temple,” he said.