Congress stoops to any level to retain power: Amit Shah

TIL Desk/National/Karnataka/ Charging the Congress with dividing the people over caste, creed and religion, BJP President Amit Shah has said the ruling party in Karnataka will stoop to any level to retain power but will not succeed this time.

“Though the Congress stoops to any level to retain power, the people who could see through its ploy will teach a lesson in the May 12 state assembly elections and bring the BJP to power again,” said Shah at a party rally in the state’s northwest region.

Terming the Siddaramaiah government as the most corrupt in the country, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief said the ruling party had become an ATM (any time money) for its high command in Delhi.

“As the Congress government has gone into slumber, I am sure the BJP will form the next government under the leadership of B.S. Yeddyurappa and put an end to five-year misrule of Siddaramaiah,” said Shah on his second visit to the erstwhile Karnataka-Bombay province ahead of the crucial polls.

The BJP, which came to power for the first time in the southern state in 2008, lost to the Congress in the May 2013 assembly elections after Yeddyurappa parted ways and formed the Karnataka Janata Party. He returned a year later and won from the Shivamogga Lok Sabha seat in May 2014 general elections.