The battle for Shivamogga in Karnataka is an intense one in Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Voting will happen on the Lok Sabha seat on Might 7 within the third part. Three-time MP BY Raghavendra, who’s former chief minister BS Yediyurappa’s son, has been brimming with confidence regardless that he’s confronted with a riot from his father’s shut political rival KS Eshwarappa, who has filed his nomination as an Unbiased.

Eshwarappa, the insurgent BJP chief has known as out “dynastic politics” within the social gathering involving Yediyurappa and his sons. When requested how he’s going to counter this riot on the sphere and whether or not Eshwarappa was making an attempt to settle outdated political scores along with his father BSY, Raghavendra laughed away, saying he’ll reply after the elections however “individuals will train them a lesson.” Talking to News18 whereas on marketing campaign path, he additional attacked the Unbiased candidate for misusing Hindutva for his private achieve.

Raghavendra feels that his work as an MP over three phrases will communicate in his favour and Eshwarappa’s candidature towards him will solely harm the latter’s probabilities. “The chief whose title you took in an occasion blessed me and stated that I might win with over 5 lakh votes and even develop into a minister (union). However what occurred inside a span of two weeks? I don’t know. Folks will give the reply on this election,” stated Raghavendra.

“He thinks he’s exhibiting a gun at our household, however he has not realised that he has really proven it at our excessive command,” the incumbent MP stated hitting again at Eshwarappa.

‘Not Parivaarwaad, Have Labored My Method Up’

Raghavendra added that the allegations of ‘parivaarwaad’ don’t apply in his case. “When Nehru was PM, his daughter later turned PM, they’d relations in prime posts within the Congress. When Rajiv Gandhi was PM, someone from their social gathering was the Congress social gathering president, the identical when it got here to Sonia Gandhi. When she was president, Rahul Gandhi held a prime publish. The choices taken by a household for a celebration inside their properties are known as pariwarvaad. Within the BJP, the excessive command has determined, and each member of my household has labored their means up, from being ABVP karyakartas, contesting elections from ABVP to being an MP. So can that be known as household politics,” he questioned.

BY Raghavendra on marketing campaign path in Shivamogga. (Picture: News18)

Contesting the Lok Sabha elections for the fourth time, Raghavendra feels that this time period, he has been glad with what he has delivered to his constituency. “At one of many villages, an individual requested me how come my father (BSY) will not be campaigning for me when in different events, DK Shivakumar was campaigning for his brother in Bengaluru Rural, Siddaramaiah for Mysore. I informed them my father Yediyurappa and brother who’s state president have 100% confidence in my win. Our karyakartas are our power and they’ll work on this election efficiently,” he stated.

Alliance With JDS

The BJP and the JDS are in alliance with one another on this election in Karnataka. When requested how a lot of coordination and cooperation the social gathering staff of each events are capable of keep, particularly after having to have fought tooth and nail towards one another within the 2023 meeting polls, the MP replied, “It’s a historic choice. We have now seen how revered Deve Gowda has been towards our social gathering, however later in entrance of Modi, he stated that they joined arms with the BJP towards the Congress. They’re working with their coronary heart and soul,” Raghavendra stated.

BY Raghavendra is BJP candidate from Shivamogga. (Picture: News18)

Apparently, Ram Mandir and Hindutva are essential election points in Shimoga, with the BJP-JDS alliance candidates asking individuals to vote for Hindutva pleasure, Ayodhya, and Modi ‘Matomme’ (as soon as once more). Raghavendra, who was campaigning door to door in Bhadravathi, a seat that the BJP has by no means gained since Independence, one which has been beneath the maintain of the Congress and JDS, appeared proud of the acceptance by voters there.

“The JDS alliance has helped. Folks additionally listed here are impressed with the way in which the Ayodhya temple was constructed. Despite the fact that the BJP has not gained from right here since Independence, each home from Bhadravathi despatched a brick to Ayodhya to assist construct the temple. Ram Mandir has had an distinctive impact on individuals and their belief in Modi,” stated the MP.

‘Congress is Dishonest Folks’

In search of re-election for the fourth time from the seat has additionally introduced in an undercurrent of anti-incumbency towards Raghavendra. Congress candidate Geetha Shivrajkumar is the daughter of former Karnataka chief minister S Bangarappa and sister of sitting Karnataka minister Madhu Bangarappa. She has been campaigning on how there’s a want for change. Bringing airports or creating highways, like Raghavendra claims, wouldn’t contribute to creating the village, however bringing mild into the lives of rural individuals like her father Bangarappa does, she stated. She has been campaigning on the advantages of the Congress’s 5 assure schemes, however Raghavendra has known as them an “utter failure”.

“They’re taking cash from one hand and handing it over via the opposite. A villager informed me how after a tough day’s work he sits down for a drink. He pays Rs 50 as taxes on liquor to the federal government. He takes a few drinks which is Rs 100 and in flip spends Rs 3000 a month. Siddaramaiah takes the cash from the husband and offers Rs 2000 to the spouse claiming it’s authorities cash. Is that not outright dishonest,” he requested.

As he ended his day’s marketing campaign at a public operate close to the final village near the Bhadra River Mission dam, a multipurpose reservoir designed by Sir M Visvesvarayya and inbuilt 1947, Raghavendra ensured he spoke of the alliance between the JDS and BJP. He known as for the assist of the JDS for the BJP for a brand new developed India beneath PM Modi. “Deve Gowda ji and Modi ji have a imaginative and prescient for India, and you’ll be a part of it. Will you vote for it? Once you do your morning pooja and want for the welfare of your loved ones, will you set yet another flower within the title of Modi,” he appealed to the ladies voters amongst individuals chanting Modi and Deve Gowda’s title.

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