Vijayendra hits back at Siddaramaiah
Siddaramaiah
's suggestion on making a Dalit leader the BJP state chief,
Karnataka BJP
president BY Vijayendra Friday hit back at the Congress leader, saying that the BJP has given a lot of respect to Dalit leaders across the nation.
"BJP elevated Dalit leaders like Ram Nath Kovind and ST leader Droupadi Murmu as Presidents of India. Moreover, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is from one of the most backward communities in the country. Congress leaders, including CM Siddaramaiah, must compare the commitment of his party and BJP to OBCs," he said.
Vijayendra issued a statement in this regard a day after he challenged the Congress leaders to project AICC president Mallikarjuna Kharge as its prime ministerial candidate to prove its commitment to Dalits.
He also alleged Congress is holding Sadhana Samavesha in Mysuru on Saturday as a show of strength for CM Siddaramaiah. "During Siddaramaiah's recent visit to Delhi, the Congress high command, mainly Rahul Gandhi, refused to meet him," Vijayendra argued.
"The state govt did not achieve anything in the last two-and-a-half years of its governance. Siddaramaiah is holding the convention to blackmail and scare the
Congress party
high command," he said.
"Whenever Siddaramaiah is in trouble, he holds such mammoth conventions and rallies across the state. He did the same after his name surfaced in the Muda scam. Siddaramaiah used backward communities as a shield to protect his chair," he said.
He described the one-man commission report submitted by Justice Michael D Cunha on the Bengaluru stampede as "half-baked".
"The state govt, to cover up its lapses and failures in crowd management, is now planning to make the RCB team a scapegoat for the incident. If Siddaramaiah is honest, he will not place this report before the high court," he said.
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