The Hindu : BJP submits `chargesheet' to mark third year of Cong. rule

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Friday, Oct 11, 2002

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Southern States - Karnataka

BJP submits `chargesheet' to mark third year of Cong. rule

By Our Special Correspondent

Bangalore Oct. 10. The BJP marked the completion of three years of the S.M. Krishna Government on Thursday by staging a dharna and submitting to the Governor, T.N. Chaturvedi, a "chargesheet'' on the Government's acts of commission and omission.

Addressing BJP workers before submitting the "chargesheet", the party leaders alleged that the only achievement of the Government was the creation of crises, and its only success was that it had been able to protect the corrupt and those involved in crimes.

The party leaders, including the State unit President, Basavaraj Patil Sedam, criticised the Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, for seeking the cooperation of Opposition parties on the vexed question of release of Cauvery waters to Tamil Nadu and, at the same time, trying to sideline them by "hiding" his plan to undertake a "padayatra" in the Cauvery Basin areas.

Mr. Sedam referred to the remarks of the Chief Minister that he did not require anybody's permission to "go home" (to his constituency), and said the people would fulfil his desire by sending him "home'' before long for protecting his ministerial colleagues who were corrupt and who were supporting criminal acts and attack on dalits.

The Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly, Jagadish Shettar, said the only achievement of the Congress Government in the past three years was the creation of one crisis after another, and its successive failures in various spheres.

Questioning the "contradictory stands" taken by the Chief Minister on the release of Cauvery waters before the Cauvery River Authority and before the public, Mr. Shettar said the "padayatra" was only a political game and an afterthought.

Mr. Shettar said the Chief Minister had let down Opposition parties by politicising the Cauvery issue, and they were against all-party meetings. It was open to Government to deal with any crisis in its own way, he added.

The BJP Vice-President, M.R. Tanga, asked the Government not to treat the cooperation extended by the Opposition parties as their weakness, and said Mr. Krishna's objective in undertaking a "padayatra" was to ensure his own political survival.

Vimala Gowda, MLC and President of the Women's Morcha of the BJP, said Mr. Krishna should have resigned on moral grounds for failing to protect the interests of the farmers in the State.

Ramachandra Gowda, MLC and Secretary of the legislature party, and Vijayashankar, President of the BJP's Farmers' Morcha, said the Mr. Krishna undertook the "padayatra" to cover up his failures.

Chargesheet

In the chargesheet, the BJP alleged manipulation of voters' list by the Government in the last Bangalore Mahanagara Palika elections and misuse of official machinery in the byelection to the Lok Sabha from the Kanakapura constituency.

It regretted that the Minister of State for Cooperation, Diwakar Babu, had not been arrested nor dropped from the ministry though he was cited as an accused in a case related to an attack on a dalit near Bellary.

The BJP alleged that the Government had failed to protect the interests of the State in the Cauvery dispute before the Supreme Court

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