“Photo-Op”: Congress On Karnataka Chief Minister Eating At Dalit Man’s Home

Chitradurga (Karnataka):

The Congress on Wednesday termed Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and his predecessor BS Yediyurappa having breakfast at a Dalit’s home, as a “photo-op” for the sake of votes, forward of subsequent 12 months’s meeting elections  within the state.

Whereas Chief of Opposition Siddaramaiah hit out on the ruling BJP for not doing sufficient for the Dalits and different backward communities, AICC Normal Secretary in-charge of Karnataka, Randeep Singh Surjewala took a dig on the Bommai authorities by highlighting an incident the place over a dozen Dalit staff had been allegedly assaulted and held captive at an property in Chikkamagaluru.

“As elections are approaching, they’ve began remembering Dalits, backward lessons, SCs and STs, until now nothing has been carried out for his or her welfare by this authorities. Now for the sake of election and votes, they’re visiting areas the place Dalits and backward communities dwell,” Siddaramaiah, who’s in Chitradurga to participate in Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, instructed reporters in response to a query.

Mr Bommai, Mr Yediyurappa, and different BJP leaders, as a part of occasion’s ‘Jana Sankalpa Yatra’, had breakfast at a Dalit’s home in Ambedkar Nagar of Kamalapura village in Vijayanagara district earlier on Wednesday.

Mr. Bommai, massive majority of Dalits and poor demand answers-:

4. Why have Dalit atrocities gone up by 54% over final 12 months? Is it by a design to focus on SC/ST’s?

5. Is diversion of SCP/TSP Funds of ₹6,500 CR by ur Govt a design to weaken their empowerment?

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— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) October 12, 2022

“The ugly stench of Dalit atrocities below Bommai Govt in Karnataka is nauseating – a 54% enhance over final 12 months. As Bommai-BSY (Yediyurappa) do photo-op of visiting a dalit home, BJP chief detains 16 Dalits & a hapless ladies loses her baby (sic),” mentioned Mr Surjewala in a tweet.

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