Accusing the Congress government in the State of indulging in “sectarian populism” and “misrule” leading to crippling of the State’s economy, Bharatiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah on Saturday announced a door-to-door campaign covering about 25 lakh houses against the Congress dispensation.
He was speaking at a press conference after holding a meeting with the State unit’s highest decision-making body of the core committee on his first visit to Bengaluru after taking over the national responsibility.
In a written statement, Mr. Shah termed the Congress government in the State as a “non-performing, corrupt and defunct dispensation that had failed in law and order and governance.”
He cited the introduction of the Bill to take over mismanaged mutts and withdrawal of the Karnataka Prevention of Cow Slaughter and Protection Bill as the recent examples of sectarian populism.
BJP State president Pralhad Joshi said the door-to-door campaign will be launched from January 7 to 20. The campaign, among other things, will demand a decrease in the KSRTC and BMTC bus fares.
Among the two mass enrolment campaigns, the first one from January 10 to 11 aims to enrol 10 lakh members and the other one from January 24 to 25 will have a target of enrolling 25 lakh members. Mr. Shah said the ongoing drive to enrol one-crore members to the party was an important step towards ensuring a Congress-free Karnataka.
