JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy on Tuesday said the 2023 assembly elections in Karnataka would be his last, and sought an opportunity from the people to run the government independently for five years, so that programs of larger public interest could be implemented. I have been Chief Minister twice with your blessings. I have decided that the 2023 assembly elections will be my last fight. It is not for me to come to power or become the Chief Minister. With God’s blessings, I have been chief minister twice in the past, despite not having a majority, Kumaraswamy said.
Talking to party workers and the public, he sought their blessings and support to bring the JD(S) to power independently, to implement ‘Panchratna’, the five-fold program envisaged by him which would include quality education, health, housing, farmers welfare and employment. .
“I am going ahead with a challenge… I request you with folded hands to give us (JDS) a chance to run an independent government in this state for five years,” he said. I seek your blessings,” the former chief minister said.
The JD(S) has already announced “Mission 123” (by winning 123 seats in the 224-member assembly) to bring the party to power after the 2023 Assembly elections.
Pointing to the farm loan waiver announced by him as chief minister of the Congress-JD(S) coalition government and inviting a beneficiary farmer from Hangal to his housewarming ceremony, Kumaraswamy said… “But forget our farmer Kumaranna. While voting (as they are popularly called), we are in this position.”
“Give a chance to the party you have raised, trust me, bless us to form the government on our own…. If I do not live up to my words of implementing Pancharatna, I will never approach you again. Vote for my party, asking me to not come. Test us, you have seen both BJP and Congress.”
Kumaraswamy had previously led a coalition government with both national parties, with the BJP for 20 months from February 2006 and with the Congress for 14 months after the May 2018 assembly elections.
Earlier in the day, while talking to reporters, the JD(S) leader claimed that the recent Income Tax raids specifically on one person, said to be a personal assistant to former CM BS Yediyurappa and a contractor belonging to the Water Resources Department, was a part of the BJP. was an attempt. Yediyurappa asked Yediyurappa to “control” him after his alleged late night meeting with Congress leader Siddaramaiah.
“Anyone with even the slightest understanding of politics can understand what was the reason for the recent IT raids… The IT raids were with a political motive… It is to control or stop Yediyurappa… Because both (Siddaramaiah and Yediyurappa) met late at night due to political developments, and the BJP, which has governments both at the Center and in the state, came to know about it from its sources, and may have tightened things up,” he said.
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