Why do you thrash innocent girls if you can't touch porn ministers: HDK questions Sangh Parivar

Udupi, February 28: Lambasting Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress, former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday said that both the national parties had been using the minorities as vote bank at the cost of division on the communal lines.

He was speaking at the Udupi-Chikmagalur JD(S) workers' convention organised here as part of poll preparation. Workers from DK, Shimoga, Chikmagalore and Udupi participated in the convention.

Criticising the modus operandi of Sangh Parivar, the JD(S) state president questioned why leaders of Sangh Parivar, who always pretend to be the saviours of Indian culture, backed the BJP ministers involved in Assembly porngate?

Why do you thrash innocent girls if you can't touch porn ministers: HDK questions Sangh Parivar

The porn tainted ministers were not booted out by Sangh Parivar, whose moral police had assaulted innocent girls at pubs in Mangalore, he said, posing a question: “Why do you thrash innocent girls if you can't touch porn ministers?”

Referring to a controversial media statement by Chief Minister D V Sadanada Gowda, the JD (S) leader asked when Mr Gowda himself could not believe that he was the CM, how could the six crore people of the state expect development from him?

“Will the officials listen to his words in such a situation?” he questioned.

Targeting transport minister R Ashoka for his statement that the budget presented by former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa had been fully implemented, he said: “Mr Ashoka is lying because he is happy with the commission earned in the purchase of new bus chassis to BMTC.”

He said, if Yeddyurappa wanted, he could have released at least Rs 200-300 crore to Areca farmers from the Rs 1000 crore revolving fund, earmarked in the agricultural budget. Unfortunately not even one rupee had been released from the fund. Likewise, only Rs 16 crore had been utilised for the welfare of the fishermen community, though the fund earmarked was Rs 160 crore, he lamented.

JS(S) candidate SL Bhojegowda, and other JD (S) leaders PGR Sindhia, Zameer Ahmed, Abdul Azeem, Basanagowda Yathnal, Madhu Bangarappa, Mahendra Kumar were present among others.