RSS directs PM Modi to step down: Challenging the BJP state president, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said, “If you and your party have courage, then make Dalit leader Govind Karjol the state president and declare him the chief ministerial candidate in the upcoming assembly elections.
More importantly, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has hinted at 75-year-old Modi’s resignation (RSS directed PM Modi to step down). Therefore, BJP has an opportunity to make a Dalit Prime Minister. You should initiate efforts for this, propose the name of a Dalit leader, and prove your love for Dalits.” He further hit back and said that BJP state president B.Y. Vijayendra is displaying his ignorance and arrogance when he is giving advice on who will be the Congress Prime Ministerial candidate, while he himself cannot even maintain his position.
Responding to Vijayendra’s statement ridiculing the AICC OBC Advisory Committee meeting and questioning that if he really had compassion for Dalits then why did he not declare Mallikarjun Kharge as the prime ministerial candidate, Siddaramaiah issued a statement saying, “Vijayendra himself cannot retain the post of BJP state president, yet he is talking about our party. If Vijayendra had the habit of reading, he would be the leader of the country.” Know the history of how BJP has treated the OBC community in India.”
Siddaramaiah questioned, “There was an innocent Dalit leader named Bandaru Laxman, who was the national president of the BJP. He was jailed on corruption charges and he died in the same agony. Now, those who take the name of President Draupadi Murmu, why did he not make him the Prime Minister? If making A.P.J. Abdul Kalam the President was his biggest achievement, then why does the BJP not have a single Muslim MP in the current Lok Sabha? Not even one in the elections.” muslim leader Why was the ticket not given? Can you answer these questions?”
He further challenged, “Vijayendra’s father, B.S. Yediyurappa, had eliminated S. Bangarappa, the leader of backward communities in the state. You are trying to politically eliminate his son, Kumar Bangarappa. If Vijayendra has compassion for Dalits and backward classes, then give the post of BJP state president to Dalit leader Govind Karjol, and declare him as the chief ministerial candidate in the upcoming assembly elections.”
About Mallikarjun Kharge, Siddaramaiah said, “AICC President Kharge is a respected leader of the country. He has emerged as a leader through hard work and compassion towards the people. He has never played the Dalit card in politics. He does not need anyone’s recommendation for his advancement. Our party will decide who will be the Prime Minister. There is no need for the BJP to worry about this.”