'BJP will be deciding factor in State'

By Our Staff Reporter

KASARAGOD, MAY 4. The Union Minister of State for Textiles, Mr. V. Dhananjay Kumar, today said that the BJP will be a deciding factor in the formation of the next Government in the State.

Addressing a press conference here, Mr. Dhananjay Kumar, who is in charge of the party's campaign in Kasaragod district, said the forthcoming election would bring about a visible change in the political equation in the State. ``The BJP will win more than one seat'', he said in reply to a query on the party's prospects in the Assembly elections. The LDF would be a `lost and defeated front' and the UDF an `up and down front' front, he added.

Stating that the election outcome would prove that the BJP was a force to reckon with in the State, Mr. Dhananjay Kumar said that the fact that all except one Minister in the Nayanar Government were `excluded' from contesting the election betrayed the apprehension of the LDF that its poor performance during the last five years would put it in a disadvantageous position.

Asked if the BJP campaigners in Manjeswaram found themselves on a sticky wicket in the face of LDF and UDF campaigners taking up the price fall of arecanut, a major agriculture produce in the area, as an election issue, the Minister said if the price fall was due to the policies of the Central Government, the Assembly election campaign was not the forum to raise the issue. The CPI(M) was indulging in a negative campaign as it had no genuine slogan to raise this time, he said. ``The Central Government has constituted a committee to study the issue of arecanut price fall,'' he said.

To a query on whether the BJP, in the event of becoming a deciding factor after the election, would support the UDF in forming the next Government, Mr. Dhananjay Kumar said that the BJP had always opposed the practice of political untouchability.

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