05-19-2008, 03:57 AM
Jaipur blasts echo in third phase
Karnataka Bureau
Sonia Gandhi, L.K. Advani, Mayawati and Narendra Modi hit the campaign trail
http://www.hindu.com/2008/05/18/stories/...660400.htm
POLL CANVAS: (Clockwise from top left) Congress president Sonia Gandhi tries to reach out to audience in Hubli on Saturday; Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati seeks votes for the BSP in Belgaum. L.K. Advani, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, campaigns for the BJP in Bidar; and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi appears at his usual best in Belgaum.
POLL CANVAS: (Clockwise from top left) Congress president Sonia Gandhi tries to reach out to audience in Hubli on Saturday; Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati seeks votes for the BSP in Belgaum. L.K. Advani, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, campaigns for the BJP in Bidar; and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi appears at his usual best in Belgaum.
POLL CANVAS: (Clockwise from top left) Congress president Sonia Gandhi tries to reach out to audience in Hubli on Saturday; Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati seeks votes for the BSP in Belgaum. L.K. Advani, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, campaigns for the BJP in Bidar; and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi appears at his usual best in Belgaum.
POLL CANVAS: (Clockwise from top left) Congress president Sonia Gandhi tries to reach out to audience in Hubli on Saturday; Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati seeks votes for the BSP in Belgaum. L.K. Advani, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, campaigns for the BJP in Bidar; and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi appears at his usual best in Belgaum.
BANGALORE: Terrorism, use of money power, regional imbalances and stability formed the main issues on which some of the major parties â the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party â sought votes in the third phase of the Assembly elections in the State. Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati were the star campaigners in the State on Saturday.
United fight
United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi underscored the need for a united fight against terror and its perpetrators.
Ms. Gandhi was addressing an election rally at the Nehru Stadium in Hubli on Saturday.
Referring to the Jaipur blasts, she said: âTerrorism has no caste or religion. The country is united on this issue. We will fight it (terrorism) together.â
About the Rs. 60,000-crore loan waiver scheme for farmers, the Congress president sought to know what the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had been speaking of farmers of late, had done for farmers. Ms. Gandhi, who began her speech with a greeting in Kannada, touched upon welfare schemes for dalits, backward classes, farmers and Muslims implemented by the UPA Government.
She referred to several issues concerning the region, including drinking water problem, the Hubli-Ankola railway line, said the Congress would chalk out programmes in this regard.
The former Chief Minister S.M. Krishna, the former minister H.K. Patil, Union Minister of State for Planning M.V. Rajashekharan, MLCs Viranna Mattikatti and A.M. Hindasageri spoke.
Union Minister K.H. Muniyappa, AICC general secretary Prithviraj Chauhan, Congress candidates for various constituencies in the district Jabbarkhan Honnalli, Shankranna Munavalli, F.H. Jakkappanavar, Vinay Kulkarni, and K.N. Gaddi were present.
BJP slammed
Addressing a public meeting in Gulbarga on Saturday, Ms. Sonia Gandhi accused the BJP of indulging in divisive politics and politicising the issue of terrorism.
Seeking votes for the party candidates in 13 Assembly constituencies in Gulbarga district, Ms. Gandhi said the menace of terrorism was not a problem of a single political party. Gulbarga MP Iqbal Ahmed Saradgi welcomed the gathering. KPCC president Mallikarjun Kharge and the former Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh spoke.
âNo captainâ
The former Deputy Prime Minister and BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani on Saturday criticised the Congress for not announcing the name of Chief Ministerial candidate for the forthcoming Assembly elections in the State.
Mr. Advani, addressing gathering in Bidar as part of the BJP campaign for the forthcoming Assembly election, asked: âHow can a team win without having a captain?â
He said people should know the Chief Ministerial candidate before the elections and âit is not right to chose a candidate after the electionsâ. Comparing the previous coalition arrangement in the State to 20-20 cricket, Mr. Advani said the non-transfer of power to B.S. Yeddyurappa and the BJP was nothing but âbetrayalâ of the people. He criticised the Congress for not executing the Supreme Court order upholding âdeathâ sentence to Parliament attack accused Afzal Guru.
On the price rise, Mr. Advani said: âBoth the common man and the nationâs economy are hit by the price rise.â
BJP State unit president D.V. Sadananda Gowda spoke.
Mr. Advani introduced Raghunhathrao Malkapure, BJP nominee in Bidar Assembly Constituency and Sanjay Kheny, the party nominee for Bidar South seat.
âDonât sell your voteâ
âSelling a vote for money or liquor amounts to selling of sisters and daughters.â This was the line adopted by Bahujan Samaj Party national president and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati at an election meeting in Belgaum on Saturday. She said the rival parties had unleashed ill-gotten money and liquor to buy votes. Falling prey to such corrupt practice meant selling of daughters and sisters, and remain deceived for five years. She reminded the voters B.R. Ambedkar, father of the Constitution, had struggled to ensure right to vote for Dalits.
Making it clear that the BSP was not against any caste or religion, Ms. Mayawati said her party strongly advocated provision of reservation for the poor among upper castes. BSPâs national general secretary and Rajya Sabha member Satish Chandra Mishra, BSPâs general secretary in-charge of South India P.G.R. Sindhia, and another national general secretary in charge of Karnataka Veer Singh spoke. None of the speakers had enough time to introduce all the 18 candidates of the party in the district who were made to sit on a separate stage in front of the main dais.
Terror network
BJP leader and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that the UPA Government could not fight terrorism.
Mr. Modi, who addressed an election meeting in Belgaum, criticised the UPA Government for repealing the POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act).
Terrorism had spread to new regions, including Karnataka. The recent explosion in Court Hall in Hubli stood in evidence to the fact that terrorists were gaining a foothold in the south. In fact, Karnataka should have been number one State in the country owing to tremendous growth potential, infrastructure and other trained human resource. However, its growth was impaired on account of political instability âA fractured mandate leads to instability,â he said.
BJP candidates Abhay Kumar Patil, Shankargouda Patil and Sanjay Patil, who are contesting from Belgaum North, Belgaum South and Belgaum Rural respectively, the former minister D.H. Shankaramurthy and Belgaum MP Suresh C. Angadi were present.
(Inputs from Girish Pattanshetty, T.V. Sivanandan, M.B. Girish and Vijaykumar Patil)
Karnataka Bureau
Sonia Gandhi, L.K. Advani, Mayawati and Narendra Modi hit the campaign trail
http://www.hindu.com/2008/05/18/stories/...660400.htm
POLL CANVAS: (Clockwise from top left) Congress president Sonia Gandhi tries to reach out to audience in Hubli on Saturday; Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati seeks votes for the BSP in Belgaum. L.K. Advani, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, campaigns for the BJP in Bidar; and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi appears at his usual best in Belgaum.
POLL CANVAS: (Clockwise from top left) Congress president Sonia Gandhi tries to reach out to audience in Hubli on Saturday; Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati seeks votes for the BSP in Belgaum. L.K. Advani, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, campaigns for the BJP in Bidar; and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi appears at his usual best in Belgaum.
POLL CANVAS: (Clockwise from top left) Congress president Sonia Gandhi tries to reach out to audience in Hubli on Saturday; Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati seeks votes for the BSP in Belgaum. L.K. Advani, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, campaigns for the BJP in Bidar; and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi appears at his usual best in Belgaum.
POLL CANVAS: (Clockwise from top left) Congress president Sonia Gandhi tries to reach out to audience in Hubli on Saturday; Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati seeks votes for the BSP in Belgaum. L.K. Advani, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, campaigns for the BJP in Bidar; and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi appears at his usual best in Belgaum.
BANGALORE: Terrorism, use of money power, regional imbalances and stability formed the main issues on which some of the major parties â the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party â sought votes in the third phase of the Assembly elections in the State. Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati were the star campaigners in the State on Saturday.
United fight
United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi underscored the need for a united fight against terror and its perpetrators.
Ms. Gandhi was addressing an election rally at the Nehru Stadium in Hubli on Saturday.
Referring to the Jaipur blasts, she said: âTerrorism has no caste or religion. The country is united on this issue. We will fight it (terrorism) together.â
About the Rs. 60,000-crore loan waiver scheme for farmers, the Congress president sought to know what the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had been speaking of farmers of late, had done for farmers. Ms. Gandhi, who began her speech with a greeting in Kannada, touched upon welfare schemes for dalits, backward classes, farmers and Muslims implemented by the UPA Government.
She referred to several issues concerning the region, including drinking water problem, the Hubli-Ankola railway line, said the Congress would chalk out programmes in this regard.
The former Chief Minister S.M. Krishna, the former minister H.K. Patil, Union Minister of State for Planning M.V. Rajashekharan, MLCs Viranna Mattikatti and A.M. Hindasageri spoke.
Union Minister K.H. Muniyappa, AICC general secretary Prithviraj Chauhan, Congress candidates for various constituencies in the district Jabbarkhan Honnalli, Shankranna Munavalli, F.H. Jakkappanavar, Vinay Kulkarni, and K.N. Gaddi were present.
BJP slammed
Addressing a public meeting in Gulbarga on Saturday, Ms. Sonia Gandhi accused the BJP of indulging in divisive politics and politicising the issue of terrorism.
Seeking votes for the party candidates in 13 Assembly constituencies in Gulbarga district, Ms. Gandhi said the menace of terrorism was not a problem of a single political party. Gulbarga MP Iqbal Ahmed Saradgi welcomed the gathering. KPCC president Mallikarjun Kharge and the former Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh spoke.
âNo captainâ
The former Deputy Prime Minister and BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani on Saturday criticised the Congress for not announcing the name of Chief Ministerial candidate for the forthcoming Assembly elections in the State.
Mr. Advani, addressing gathering in Bidar as part of the BJP campaign for the forthcoming Assembly election, asked: âHow can a team win without having a captain?â
He said people should know the Chief Ministerial candidate before the elections and âit is not right to chose a candidate after the electionsâ. Comparing the previous coalition arrangement in the State to 20-20 cricket, Mr. Advani said the non-transfer of power to B.S. Yeddyurappa and the BJP was nothing but âbetrayalâ of the people. He criticised the Congress for not executing the Supreme Court order upholding âdeathâ sentence to Parliament attack accused Afzal Guru.
On the price rise, Mr. Advani said: âBoth the common man and the nationâs economy are hit by the price rise.â
BJP State unit president D.V. Sadananda Gowda spoke.
Mr. Advani introduced Raghunhathrao Malkapure, BJP nominee in Bidar Assembly Constituency and Sanjay Kheny, the party nominee for Bidar South seat.
âDonât sell your voteâ
âSelling a vote for money or liquor amounts to selling of sisters and daughters.â This was the line adopted by Bahujan Samaj Party national president and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati at an election meeting in Belgaum on Saturday. She said the rival parties had unleashed ill-gotten money and liquor to buy votes. Falling prey to such corrupt practice meant selling of daughters and sisters, and remain deceived for five years. She reminded the voters B.R. Ambedkar, father of the Constitution, had struggled to ensure right to vote for Dalits.
Making it clear that the BSP was not against any caste or religion, Ms. Mayawati said her party strongly advocated provision of reservation for the poor among upper castes. BSPâs national general secretary and Rajya Sabha member Satish Chandra Mishra, BSPâs general secretary in-charge of South India P.G.R. Sindhia, and another national general secretary in charge of Karnataka Veer Singh spoke. None of the speakers had enough time to introduce all the 18 candidates of the party in the district who were made to sit on a separate stage in front of the main dais.
Terror network
BJP leader and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that the UPA Government could not fight terrorism.
Mr. Modi, who addressed an election meeting in Belgaum, criticised the UPA Government for repealing the POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act).
Terrorism had spread to new regions, including Karnataka. The recent explosion in Court Hall in Hubli stood in evidence to the fact that terrorists were gaining a foothold in the south. In fact, Karnataka should have been number one State in the country owing to tremendous growth potential, infrastructure and other trained human resource. However, its growth was impaired on account of political instability âA fractured mandate leads to instability,â he said.
BJP candidates Abhay Kumar Patil, Shankargouda Patil and Sanjay Patil, who are contesting from Belgaum North, Belgaum South and Belgaum Rural respectively, the former minister D.H. Shankaramurthy and Belgaum MP Suresh C. Angadi were present.
(Inputs from Girish Pattanshetty, T.V. Sivanandan, M.B. Girish and Vijaykumar Patil)