“This is the last Congress government in the State. It will neither be re-elected nor will it come to power in any other future elections,” the former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar said in Hubballi on Sunday. Mr. Shettar, who quit the BJP before the Assembly elections to join the Congress, recently re-joined the BJP.
“Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, who keeps claiming that the Congress guarantees will last 10 years, is living in an imaginary land. This is the last Congress government in the State. It will never come back to power,” Mr. Shettar said.
He also countered Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s criticism of the BJP State leadership saying Mr. Siddaramaiah does not seem to know the history of the Congress.
“Mr. Siddaramaiah has said that the BJP State unit leaders are only nodding their heads like pet bulls (Kole Basava) in front of senior leaders like Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. But he does not know that the Congress was full of yes men during the reign of Indira Gandhi. The running joke was that there was only one gentleman in the Congress and that it was Mrs. Gandhi. He should go through the history of Congress before criticising other parties,” he said.
He said that nothing has been finalised about the BJP-Janata Dal(S) alliance and that all the reports coming out about seat sharing are only hearsay. “They are all confusing and baseless,” he said.
