By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
Bangalore: After inaugurating a convention of KJP Minorities Cell in Bangalore on Saturday, Former Chief Minister of Karnataka and Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP) president B S Yeddyurappa accused the Congress of using Muslims as its vote bank, and restricting the community’s economic development for political gains.
Citing examples of economic backwardness in the community, the KJP Chief promised special housing and educational schemes as well as setting up cooperative banks for the welfare of women from minority communities, if his party is elected to power.
Yedyurappa led BJP to victory in 2008 state assembly elections, he quit the party in November 2012 after he was forced to resign from Chief Ministership following corruption allegations.
Though the state has BJP in power since May 2008, it is interesting to note, B S Yeddyurappa only accused the congress for the Muslim community’s state of affairs. The reason might be because he himself had served as Chief Minister of the state for the period of three years, which hardly saw any change in the economic conditions of the community, and also historically the state’s Muslim community has voted for the Congress wooed by its ‘pro-Muslim’ rhetoric, and by deriding congress, he wants to seek his own political mileage.