Holding the ruling BJP at the Centre and the State responsible for skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, the “unprecedented unemployment” and communal disharmony, Sudheendra Kulkarni, a political analyst who had worked as an advisor to former Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and T.N. Prakash Kammardi, an agricultural economist and former chairman of Karnataka Agricultural Prices Commission, called upon the people to defeat the saffron party and elect Congress in the imminent Assembly Elections in the State.
“BJP claims that a double-engine government – single party in power at the Centre and the State – would help for development. Our experience showed that it did not facilitate the development of the State through BJP is in power at the State and the Centre. It failed to control the skyrocketing prices of essential commodities. It failed to provide jobs to the youth. It failed to maintain peace, harmony and order in the society,” Mr. Kulkarni said at a media conference in Kalaburagi on Monday.
Criticising BJP’s approach of One Nation, One Party and One leader, Mr. Kulkarni said that the approach was opposed to the very idea of India’s pluralism and federal structure.
