Only Modi and Shah can solve all problems at national level: ex-PM Deve Gowda

Noting that the role of former chief minister and BJP stalwart BS Yediyurappa was very important, Gowda said he must forget whatever had happened in the past “because the time is very short”.

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‘No other leader in the country’

“Our opponents are so strong. Don’t think that we are going to win all the 28 seats unless and until we forget what all had happened in the past and our differences,” the 91-year-old said at a coordination meeting of the two parties here.

Stating that “other than Modi there is no leader in this country”, Gowda said he knows each and every corner of the nation having served the country as Prime Minister for a decade.

“Only Modi and Shah are the two leaders who can solve all the problems at the national level,” the nonagenarian leader said.

Gowda cautioned the BJP and JD(S) leaders against taking the Congress lightly, and claimed that the Mallikarjun Kharge-led outfit has “huge financial resources”.

“In the present Congress government (in Karnataka), money reserve is one of the major areas for them. Can you challenge me? The entire Bengaluru and every department are in the hands of one leader. It is not easy to challenge Congress’s resources. Not so simple,” he said.

According to Gowda, no one knows how much money has been pumped in by the Congress in Mandya from where his son and former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy is contesting as the BJP-JD(S) alliance candidate.

“Today this so-called Congress is only in four states and the money has to be supplied from Karnataka. The president of AICC (Kharge) is from Karnataka. Please understand. It is not so easy (to win the election),” he said.

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Questions Congress

To highlight the “resource mobilisation” by Congress in the Lok Sabha election, Gowda said never ever in the history of Karnataka 94 MLAs held the position of Cabinet rank (including by way of holding positions as chairpersons of various state-owned boards and corporations.)

He also lashed out at Siddaramaiah for his statement “Where is JD(S) in the state?”

“I will prove that 91-year-old Deve Gowda has the strength to demonstrate where JD(S) is. I will not be scared. I don’t have any fear,” he said.

Speaking on the occasion, Yediyurappa expressed confidence that the BJP-JD(S) alliance will win all 28 seats.

Yediyurappa also hit out at the Congress government for allegedly stopping all the development works.

“There is nothing much to say about this government. People have lost their trust in it. Its coffers are empty and development works have come to a halt,” he added.

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