The Congress government, headed by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, may not last its full term and can collapse paving way for a mid-term election, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader K.S. Eshwarappa has said.
In his address at a party workers convention at Chikkodi on Tuesday, he said that both the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) under G. Parameshwara and Congress Legislature Party (CLP), headed by Mr. Siddaramaiah, were finding the going tough due to increasing groupism, differences on various issues and absence of necessary co-ordination between, and within, the two establishments.
He reminded the party workers that the BJP suffered electoral defeat because of internal differences and severance of ties among leaders resulting in a vertical split in the party. The Congress was facing the same fate now, he said.
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He said that the BJP had realised its weaknesses and also learnt a lesson from its mistakes.
Both the leaders and the workers need to remain united, as the BJP was confident of forming the government on its own at the Centre under the leadership of its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. However, the party was looking to win at least 20 of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in the State.
Mr. Eshwarappa trained his guns both at the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre for giving a regime marked by corruption, scams and financial misappropriation, besides failures on internal and external security, and the Congress government in the State which was pursuing a “divide and rule” policy with an eye on certain vote banks.
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He said that the people, though helpless, were watching silently and waiting to teach the Congress a lesson in the elections to the Lok Sabha.
BJP State Mahila Morcha president and MLA Shashikala Jolle called upon women members to visit every house and convince women and their family members of the need to overthrow what she called a corrupt government at the Centre.