Modi wave’ will meet ‘India shining’ fate: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah

Bengaluru: Dismissing claims that a ‘Modi wave’ was sweeping across the nation ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday remarked that the BJP was good in creating a false notion about fake waves.

“‘The Modi wave’ will crashland them like the ‘India Shining’ campaign they had launched in 2009,” he said while speaking to reporters after inducting over half a dozen leaders including former chief minister, B.S. Yeddyurappa’s close aide, M.D. Lakshminarayana into the party fold here.

Mr Siddaramaiah said, “If there was no strong undercurrent in favour of the Congress, these leaders would not have dared to join us. Their joining our party is a clear indication that the BJP’s propaganda about the so called ‘Modi Wave’ is nothing but a false notion.”

Haling Mr Lakshminarayana’s capabilities as an able organiser and leader of the backward community, Mr Siddaramaiah said, “I know Mr Laksminarayana for the last couple of years and his organising skills are amazing. The BJP has always been vocally critical about the reservation policy for backward classes, Dalits or Minorities. All along, they have worked against social justice,” he charged.

While heaping praise on Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah, KPCC president, Dr G. Parameshwar said: “The moment he was sworn in as chief minister in May last year, he took the bold step of announcing several pro-people schemes which no chief minister, till date in the history of Karnataka had dared to do. That is why, I term him as a man who keeps his word. Under his able leadership the state government is moving in the right direction. He may not have fulfilled all promises made by our party before the Assembly elections, but he has successfully implemented nearly, 90 per cent of assurances till date,” he said.