Karnataka bypoll: Siddaramaiah, BS Yeddyurappa end campaign with war of words
Yeddyurappa said Siddaramaiah was camping in Mysuru with his cabinet to distribute money among voters.
Mysuru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and State BJP president B.S. Yeddyurappa continued their war of words in Gundlupet on Friday, the last day of the bypoll campaign.
Siddaramaiah who held an unscheduled road show and rally in Gundlupet, accused Yeddyurappa of making false allegations and making politics corrupt through Operation Kamala.
“The BJP does not believe in social justice and is anti-poor. When Jagadish Shettar was CM, he waived farm loans upto Rs 25,000. But it is we who cleared the scheme when we came to power. Does Mysuru MP Pratap Simha, who speaks ill about a grieving widow (Gundlupet Congress candidate Geetha Mahadevprasad) have any sense of humanity? Women will not tolerate you if you speak ill about a woman,” he said.
Hitting back at the Chief Minister, Yeddyurappa said Siddaramaiah was camping in Mysuru with his cabinet to distribute money among voters.
“It is the first time in history that money has been distributed at the behest of a Chief Minister. This is not a minor issue. We are giving a complaint in this regard to the Election Commission. Siddaramaiah is the most corrupt politician in the country. He has no trust in democracy,” he said.
Mr Yeddyurappa also visited the family of 51-year-old Chikkamada Shetty, a farmer who had ended life by consuming poison, at Oddana Hosahallu in Gundlupet taluk on Friday.