Dynastic Cong, JD(S) created instability: PM

Press Trust of India

Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the Congress and Janata Dal (Secular), saying the two “dynastic” parties were responsible for political instability in Karnataka, and that they “encourage corruption”.

Modi also alleged that both parties saw Karnataka as an ATM, and that they found opportunity in instability. “The Congress and the JD(S) are responsible for the instability. They pretend to be two separate parties but are one in their hearts. They are together in Delhi. They assist each other in Parliament,” he said at a public meeting in Channapatna in Ramanagara district, which is a JD(S) bastion.

It was here that the JD(S) second-in-command H D Kumaraswamy, son of former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, won the 2018 assembly election defeating BJP candidate C P Yogeeshwara, and is again seeking reelection. “Both are dynastic parties and encourage corruption,” Modi said.

“For a very long time, Karnataka has seen the drama of unstable government. Unstable governments provide a chance to loot”. “There is always a fight to loot and (the focus is) not development in the unstable government,” he further said. Hitting out at the JD(S), he said the party had openly declared that if it got 15 to 20 seats in the election to the 224-member Assembly, then it would be the kingmaker.

“This selfish approach may benefit one family but it causes losses to lakhs of families of Karnataka,” the Prime Minister said. He also alleged that every vote to the JD(S) would straightaway go to the Congress and bring instability in Karnataka. “Whenever the Congress and the JD(S) come to power, some families thrive but for the BJP, every family of India and Karnataka is the party’s own family, “ Modi said.