Mangaluru, Mar 27: The Bharatiya Janata Party, which is holding Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency for past three decades, this time aims to defeat nearest opponent, the Congress, by a margin of two lakh votes, according to Sanjeeva Matandoor, DK district president of the party.
Speaking to media persons here, Mr Matandoor recalled that sitting BJP MP Nalin Kumar Kateel had defeated the Congress veteran B Janardhana Poojary by a margin of 1,43,709 votes in the 2014 polls in the constituency.
Mr. Matandoor, who is also MLA for Puttur, said the party would conduct 55 public election programmes in the constituency from April 1. At least seven such programmes would be organised in each of eight Assembly segments. Prime Minister Narendra Modi would address one of those programmes. The date of his address was yet to be finalised, he said.
Alleging that the Congress–Janata Dal (Secular) coalition government in the State was on “ventilator”, Mr. Matandoor said the development works in the State had to come a stand still.
The State government had not released the area development funds of MLAs. It had not released funds to Karnataka Coastal Development Authority, and Karnataka Border Area Development Authority, he alleged.
The MLA alleged that the State had not constituted many committees such as Ashraya committee, land tribunal committee and akrama-sakrama committee. It had sidelined the coastal area in its budget, Mr. Matandoor alleged.
“We will project the failures of the State government before the people,” he said.
Asked about any major contribution of the party’s MP, Nalin Kumar Kateel, to the constituency in the past 10 years, he said the plastic park to Mangaluru got the approval during his tenure.
Mr. Matandoor said of the 232 gram panchayats in the constituency, the BJP has its hold over 134. In addition to winning seven of the eight Assembly segments in last year’s elections, the party had won the election to Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat. It had its hold over five urban local bodies — Mulky, Puttur, Sullia, Belthangady, and Kotekar. In addition, it was in majority in the taluk panchayats of Puttur and Sullia.
S. Angara, Y. Bharat Shetty, and Harish Poonja, MLAs, were present.
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Very well said. Nalin is a very famous MP and even every cow knows him for the well job done during last four years. Because of his efforts the lost fishermen are back to home. He used to work 20 hours per day and used to cry for the fate of poors of his constituency. He is number one MP in whole India who cared for his people and used almost all the budget allocated to MP. All the development works were done by this people loving MP only. He never hurted any comminity as he never ever uttered a bad or illogic word which can be considered as provocative. However, opposition parties are blaming him and this is due to jealous only. I am quite confident that this time also people will elect their beloved leader Nalin and winning margin will not be less than 5 lakhs. BJP is going to win all the MP seats from Karnataka due to fantastic work done by bjp in the center by providing jobs to handreds of thousand of youths, transferring 15 lakhs in near future (after coming to power once again )to every citizzen as promised by our great leader MOdi., curbing of rape, decoit, attrocities on minorities, group is GDP, teaching good lesson to Pakista by taking revenge of Pulwama attack by killing more than 500 terrorists includng military personel etc etc. Nalin should be our next PM or at leasst Home or Finance Minister.
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