File photo of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with ex-servicemen during the India Jodi Yatra in Raichur. , photo credit: special arrangement
The day the Bharat Jodi Yatra completed its Karnataka leg, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi thanked the people of the state for participating with him, and accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of going against Basavanna’s teachings.
“Guru Basavanna taught others not to steal, kill, lie, or show anger and intolerance. The BJP has done the exact opposite of his teachings in Karnataka,” he said in a statement issued on Sunday, as the yatra completed 22 days in Karnataka. and went to Telangana.
“The state that has become a model for the country is now infamous as a 40% commission government and a fitting example for a suit-boot government. Communal harmony and development of the public sector have been affected. Economic growth has stalled. The state which remained peaceful is being used as a laboratory for promoting hatred and misgovernance.
Mr Gandhi said that the underprivileged sections and minorities of the society are facing the rising tide of hatred and violence, while the language, diversity, culture and history of the state are being destroyed and distorted.
Meanwhile, Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah on Sunday said the Bharat Jodi Yatra has given impetus to the fight against dictatorship, misrule and communal polarisation. “The yatra has also helped the party leaders and workers to understand the pulse of the people better. The yatra may have left Karnataka, but the awareness it created, the unity it brought in and hopefully helps us in our fight to protect democracy,” Mr Siddaramaiah said in a note on the day of the yatra. Told. Karnataka leg.
Thanking the former chief minister for making it a mass movement and not limiting the yatra to a party event, he said the yatra has also created awareness about who Mr. Gandhi, who has been maligned through character assassination, is Huh.
The KPCC also released a booklet on Sunday, and accused the BJP of lying and spending hundreds of crores to run an organized lying factory. “This yatra was against the lies of the BJP. Ever since India got independence, RSS-backed governments have been trying to undermine the Constitution and work against the national anthem and the national flag, sometimes openly. When the RSS and other organizations did not get the support of the people, they resorted to buying MLAs.
It said that although the seeds of communal division were sown by Savarkar, who first propounded the two-nation theory based on religion at the Hindu Mahasabha meeting in Ahmedabad in 1937, which was later chosen by Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the RSS and others Organizations accuse Gandhi and Nehru of dividing the country. “While 268 people died in communal violence during LK Advani’s Rath Yatra in 1990, the Bharat Jodi Yatra is uniting people and upholding the country’s diversity.”