The Congress on Friday intensified its marketing campaign concentrating on Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai with the highest get together leaders placing up ‘PayCM posters’ at public locations ignoring state authorities’s course to research the matter. The Chief Minister hit again saying that the Congress has no ethical proper to discuss corruption.
Former chief minister Siddaramaiah, state Congress chief D Ok Shivakumar, All India Congress Committee normal secretary and Karnataka in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala and a number of other senior MLAs and others participated within the marketing campaign. They put up the PayCM poster on the Race Course wall within the metropolis reverse the Volvo workplace.
Later, the Congress leaders have been arrested and the posters have been faraway from the general public place. Congress leaders similar to B Ok Hariprasad and others pasted the posters on the bus which police had introduced to remove the leaders to the police station. The Congress state chief Shivakumar alleged the police didn’t take motion in opposition to those that put up birthday and different posters of politicians illegally however arrest solely the Congress folks.
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“This marketing campaign will go to each nook and nook of the state. We is not going to cease it right here,” Shivakumar stated. Surjewala who too was arrested, tweeted, “The #40PercentCommission Bommai Govt is so unnerved that it has given #Karnataka Police the job of tearing up posters & arresting Opposition leaders as a substitute of sustaining regulation & order. Persons are ready to throw out the BJP Govt mired in insufferable stench of corruption.”
The get together additionally pasted the ‘PayCM’ posters on the BJP’s Nelamangala workplace on the outskirts of Bengaluru on Friday. The get together later shared the photographs of its PayCM marketing campaign with media. Chief Minister Bommai retaliated in opposition to the cost on Friday. He alleged the Congress get together was concerned in a number of scams and it has no ethical proper to speak about corruption.
“The BJP had launched a ebook on the Corruption of the Congress Get together and being corrupt they’re doing a drive on corruption. Allow them to do something, in the end fact will all the time triumph. The perspective of speaking with none proof is not going to final lengthy,” Bommai stated.
He additionally stated the federal government has given an in depth reply on the corruption prices levelled by a Contractors’ Affiliation, which had alleged that ministers allegedly cost 40 per cent fee for the general public works. “The Congress get together thinks a lie spoken usually will grow to be a fact however they’re fallacious. Individuals know the reality,” Bommai stated.
He additionally stated he was prepared for a debate on the difficulty and challenged the Congress to current the proof as a substitute of indulging in hit-and-run. “Chief of the Opposition within the State Legislative Meeting Siddaramaiah should say who had given 40 per cent fee. We have been able to pay attention and because of this we sat within the Home for the entire day,” the chief minister added.
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He additionally alleged that the Contractors’ Affiliation was a Congress-sponsored one and therefore, they knew properly that there was no stuff in it. “The federal government is open on this regard and able to maintain an inquiry if a criticism is filed,” the Chief minister stated. Rattled with the Congress marketing campaign, the BJP launched a counter-offensive.
It began ‘Rip-off Ramaiah’ marketing campaign highlighting the varied scams that came about in the course of the Congress regime led by Siddaramaiah from 2013 to 2018. It additionally launched a booklet, concentrating on Siddaramaiah, saying that he ran a ‘100 per cent loot Congress authorities’.
The booklet had the clippings of newspaper stories on scams that had taken place when Siddaramaiah was the Chief Minister. The BJP legislative council members too staged an indication close to Mahatma Gandhi’s statue holding placards explaining the scams taken place in the course of the Congress regime.
Addressing a press convention, the state BJP state president Nalin Kumar Kateel alleged that the grand previous get together, which dominated the nation since 1947 gave the main contribution of corruption within the nation. The police, probing the matter on Bommai’s directions had arrested B R Naidu, the previous chief of Congress’ Karnataka unit social media workforce, on Wednesday evening from his residence.
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The PayCM QR code bearing the {photograph} of the Chief Minister will get directed to a web site – ‘40% Sarkara’ – accusing the Bommai-led BJP authorities was charging 40 per cent fee on public works. The web site was launched a number of days in the past by the Congress. Forward of the Meeting elections in Karnataka subsequent 12 months, the Congress is making an attempt to rake up the difficulty of contractor Santosh Patil’s dying by suicide in an Udupi lodge earlier this 12 months.
Patil had accused the then state Rural Improvement and Panchayat Raj Minister Ok S Eshwarappa of demanding 40 per cent minimize in a public work in his district. Eshwarappa had resigned following the cost. Nevertheless, an investigation carried out by the police gave him a clear chit. Following the PayCM marketing campaign, the BJP began ‘Rip-off-Ramaiah’ pointing to the alleged scams taken place in the course of the Congress authorities in Karnataka led by then chief minister Siddaramaiah.
BJP state chief Nalin Kumar Kateel charged that the Congress has falsely accused the Chief Minister and Karnataka has been insulted by this allegation.