Janata Dal (Secular) Karnataka president H D Kumaraswamy has claimed that Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party have been responsible for the divide between Muslims and Hindus in the state in general and coastal districts in particular.
Speaking to media persons on Sunday, April 8 at Vijayapura, the former chief minister dubbed the two national parties as two faces of the same coin. “They are creating a gulf between Hindus and Muslims, in the coastal region especially, for electoral gains,” he said.
Kumaraswamy appealed to the Muslim community not to believe the Congress, whose leaders were saying that voting for the JD(S) was akin to supportlng the Congress. He said the latter was not capable of preventing BJP from coming to power. Muslims should vote for JD(S), he said.
He alleged that the Siddaramaiah government had taken loans amounting to lakhs of crores of rupees, but had nothing to show for development.
The JD(S) leader said the government claims to have spent Rs 58,000 crore for irrigation, but water had not flowed to the farmers' fields.
He said the government had spent Rs 1,000 crore on advertisements, at Rs 7 crore a day, all about projects that had only received approval and whose works were under progress.
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