Karnataka is BJP's gateway to south India: Amit Shah in Bengaluru

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday stressed that the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP needs to strengthen its organisation in the southern part of the country and said that Karnataka is the gateway to the South for the partyThe Home Minister dismissed the rumours of the party allying with the JD S for the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections slated next year and announced that the BJP will contest aloneParty workers from across the country tell me that we should strengthen the BJP in the South It is the resolution of the party workers that the lotus should bloom in the South I want to tell you that the BJPs gateway to the South is Karnataka Shah said while addressing Booth President Sammelan on the second day of his twoday visit to KarnatakaBJPs organisation has reached to village level in Karnataka I can say that JDS and Congress cannot have such a big rally but the Sammelan of our workers seems so huge he saidShah launched a scathing attack on Congress and said that the party is doing the leadership of the TukdeTukde gangThose associated with JDS are spreading rumours that BJP will form an alliance with them I want to clearly tell Karnataka that BJP will fight elections alone and also form government in the state On one side there is a group of nationalists in the form of the BJP on the other hand the TukdeTukde gang has gathered under the leadership of Congress he saidAlso Read Modi government failed to keep promises in 2022 NCPThe people of Karnataka have to decide if they have to be with the patriots or with the supporters of those wanting to break the country he addedStating that gaining power is a way of corruption for Congress the Home Minister said that the party has been wiped off in six out of the seven Assembly elections conducted this yearWe are moving into the field of the election with a strong background For Congress gaining power is a way of doing corruption but for us it is to make peoples lives better In the recent elections in 7 states BJP won in 5 states and Congress was wiped out from 6 states he saidShah also called upon the party workers and urged them to form the government in the state with a full majorityI have come to invoke the workers of the state Do not make a hung government make the government with a twothirds majority I guarantee you reach out to the people Our governments at the Centre and state ran for nine years Narendra Modi government has not done anything that you have to bow your head in shame he saidShahs visit to Mandya and Bengaluru district of Karnataka is significant as the upcoming 2023 elections will be mainly fought in the Old Mysuru Region where Congress and JDS are traditional rivals BJP is expected to up a strong fight in the regionThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever