Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during an address in Bengaluru on Friday slammed the BJP-led Karnataka government. “The most corrupt government in the country is the Karnataka government,” he said. Further stepping his attack, the Congress leader said, “BJP is working on a financial transfer mechanism – take money from the poor and give it to a handful of rich businessmen in the country.”
The Wayanad MP is on a two-day visit to the poll-bound Karnataka. He is accompanied by Congress state unit President DK Shivakumar, Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah, Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala, party’s Campaign Committee chairman M B Patil, and former union minister KH Muniyappa, along with other senior state party leaders.
Attacking the BJP for destroying the employment sectors, Rahul Gandhi said that the “economy of our country is collapsed.” He added, “Unemployment and inflation have increased, these are the biggest issues in the country. Even if BJP wants, they cannot provide jobs to people in India because they have destroyed the employment providing sectors.”
Sounding a clamor of Congress in the state of Karnataka, Rahul Gandhi said, “Karnataka has always had the spirit of the Congress party. This is a natural state of Congress. We should be very clear in our mind that we will get not less than 150 seats. We will bring Karnataka back on the track of development.”
“It is very easy to find out who is doing real work in Karnataka. We should be deciding tickets based on the work that person is doing for Congress,” Gandhi said during the address. He added, “We should not fight the election for a close result, we should fight to make a decisive government.”
Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the state comes as the party is soon set to kick off the 2023 assembly elections campaign. Karnataka has been a witness of major turbulence in the political landscape since 2019 – the collapse of the Congress government. In 2021, B.S Yeddiyurappa was also replaced by Basavaraj Bommai as the chief minister.
(With inputs from ANI)
