Belman, 13 March 2012: A Chief Minister going to jail is for the first time in the history of the Karnataka state. The development works are unattended, the northern part of the state is in draught and in this situation the BJP leaders are busy with the power struggle. The administration of the state has completely collapsed. The people are fed up with policies of Congress and BJP and more and more youths are joining JDS is the sign that the people want a change, said former Chief Minister Janata Dal State President H.D. Kumaraswamy.
He was speaking in the election rally in Belman town campaigning for his party candidate S.L. Bhoje Gowda for the lokasabha election. He said, while he was the Chief Minister for a short time he lived in villages and examined the common man’s difficulties, arranged the project of exempting the loans, revolutionary changes in the education sector, established new educational Institutions, created 58,000 jobs to the youths and gave equal importance to all the districts of the state and given good administration, he said.
On this occasion more than 50 youths of Congress and BJP party from Belman, Mundkur, Nandalike, Bola areas led by Sharath Shetty, Niranjana Bhat, Vedavyasa Nayak, Devendra Shetty and Gregory Menezes received the flag of Janata Dal and joined the party. Lokasabha Janata Dal candidate S.L. Bhoje Gowda, Former Minister K. Amaranatha Shetty, MLA Putte Gowda, Mari Linge Gowda, Puttraj, Mahendra Kumar, Sooryakanth Shetty, Vasudeva Rao, Sathyashankara Shetty, Balakrishna Nayak Karkala, Sunil Soans, Lokesh and others were present.