Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday said that any move to ban the Bajrang Dal will prove costly to the Congress and if devotees of Lord Hanuman revolt, then, the Congress will be ousted from the country itself.
Addressing an election rally after participating in a roadshow in favour of BJP candidate and Minister Shankar Patil Munenakoppa in Navalgund of Dharwad district on Tuesday, Mr. Bommai said that the devotees of Lord Hanuman are members of Bajrang Dal who have strengthened the religion and nation’s history. Any move to ban the organisation will result in the uprooting of the Congress, he said.
Mr. Bommai said that it is the BJP which resolved the Mahadayi project issue and earmarked ₹1,000 crore for it in the budget. “It was during the Congress rule that the Nargund revolt took place when the [Congress] government ordered firing on farmers who were protesting against irrigation levy. In the last two decades, it was the Congress which always created hurdles for the Mahadayi project. It was during Siddaramaiah’s government that farmers fighting for the project were lathi-charged,” he said and asked the public whether they will vote for the Congress which had the farmers thrashed.
