Belagavi: Hitting the street in poll-bound Karnataka, the Congress on Wednesday started its statewide bus tour known as ‘Praja Dhwani Yatre’, collectively led by celebration state unit President D Ok Shivakumar and Chief of Opposition within the Meeting Siddaramaiah.

The tour kickstarted at ‘Veer Soudha’, a memorial the place Mahatma Gandhi had presided over the Congress session in 1924, after paying tributes to the daddy of the nation.

AICC Normal Secretary In-charge of State Randeep Surjewala, and senior leaders together with marketing campaign committee chief M B Patil, have been amongst others current.

The tour protecting 21 districts will see the celebration sharing its concepts with the individuals and assuring all-round growth of the state, whereas attacking the BJP authorities with a “cost sheet” it has ready, Congress leaders mentioned.

As a part of the bus yatra, each Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah, who’re nursing chief ministerial ambitions within the occasion of the Congress coming to energy, will journey in the identical automobile till January 29.

Thereafter, within the second week of February, two separate groups can be fashioned, with one headed by Siddaramaiah set to tour Meeting constituencies in north Karnataka area, whereas Shivakumar shall be main the way in which in southern districts.

Congress leaders symbolically swept the road with a brush and mentioned they are going to “wipe out the corrupt” BJP authorities from the state, the place elections are due by Could.

Siddaramaiah mentioned, the Congress is starting the Yatre from Belagavi to “wipe out the BJP authorities’s corruption and its misrule” from the state.

“Our intention is to position earlier than the individuals a cost sheet towards the BJP authorities within the state, as a result of the whole authorities is submerged in corruption, there may be rising misrule, and they’re indulging in a politics of hate. If anybody questions, they’re being intimidated with false circumstances and arrests,” he mentioned, including that “corruption is rampant and persons are fed up”.

Shivakumar mentioned the BJP authorities has been a “curse” for this state as “scandals are popping out day by day”, and to wipe it out, the Congress is taking on this yatre.

“The BJP has made Karnataka the capital of corruption, this needs to be ended and other people must be given administration, they need to have faith in direction of the federal government, so we’re taking on this yatre with a promise of fine governance,” he mentioned.

Itemizing out “numerous corruption and scandals” within the state and accusing the federal government of giving a clear chit to these concerned by submitting a b-report in such circumstances, he alleged, “estimates have been doubled in PWD and irrigation contracts, all the pieces shall be appeared into, all scandals and B report shall be inquired into on Congress coming to energy.”

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