By Mohd. Ismail Khan and Shaik Zakeer Hussain, TwoCircles.net,
Bengaluru: Following his indictment in the Karnataka Lokayukta report on illegal mining, BS Yeddyurappa was forced to step down as Chief Minister of the state by his own party members.Disillusioned and humiliated, he quit BJP and joined a newly formed regional party Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP). Soon the relatively unknown party shot to prominence, and is now projected as a key player in assembly elections.
TCN spoke to Nazeer Ahmed, who is the party’s State Secretary, about its prospects of winning the elections, minority community in the state and more.
On KJP:
Though the party is new, but the leader is a vast one; he is a stalwart. There is nobody in this state of his political maturity.
For 65 years our people have voted for Congress and for nothing. Because when a person is fearful, when he is afraid of something, he wants protection and he can’t ask anything else from the person who is giving this protection. That’s how we lost our claims; we lost all our rights, without asking for our rights, we voted for Congress, only for the fear of BJP.
On party Chief BS Yeddyurappa’s right wing links and how Muslims can trust the party:
Yesterday whatever you may be, today what you are, you have to see. Yesterday he lit your house on fire and today he is bringing water to save your house, would you refuse his help? If you are a wise person you will make use of it.
He (BS Yeddyurappa) says he’ll write in his blood saying that he’ll not return back to BJP. In spite of him being in RSS and BJP, he practised secularism, by giving minorities the rights. Yeddyurappa, in his three year tenure, increased the minority grants to 362 crores. Is he still a communal person?
What does KJP have to offer to minorities?
There are so many things. He (BS Yeddyurappa) has taken care of everything. When being in RSS and BJP, he had taken care of all the communities, now he is a free bird. He is not against any community; he is in favour of all communities.
Will KJP make a mark in the Assembly Elections?
Definitely, we will.
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