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“Eshwarappa is training guns at BJP, not my family,” retorts Raghavendra as the conflict in Shivamogga intensifies

The fight for Shivamogga in Karnataka is a serious one in Lok Sabha Races 2024. Voting will take place in the Lok Sabha on May 7 in the third stage. Three-time MP BY Raghavendra, who is previous chief serve BS Yediyurappa’s child, has been brimming with certainty indeed, even though he is confronted with resistance from his father’s near political match, KS Eshwarappa, who has recorded his designation as an independent.

Eshwarappa, the revolting BJP pioneer, has called out “dynastic politics” in the party, including Yediyurappa and his children. When asked how he was going to counter this resistance on the field and whether Eshwarappa was attempting to settle ancient political scores with his father, BSY, Raghavendra giggled absent, saying he would react after the decisions but “people would teach them a lesson.” Talking to News18, while on the campaign path, he encouraged assaulting the free candidate for abusing Hindutva for his gain.

Raghavendra feels that his work as an MP over three terms will speak to his support, and Eshwarappa’s candidature against him will, as it would harm the latter’s chances. “The pioneer whose title you took on an occasion favoured me and said that I would win with over 5 lakh votes and indeed get to be a servant (union). But what happened within two weeks? I don’t know. Individuals will provide the reply in this election,” said Raghavendra. “He considers he is appearing a weapon at our family, but he has not figured out that he has appeared it at our tall command,” the officeholder MP said, hitting back at Eshwarappa.

Raghavendra included that the affirmations of ‘parivaarwaad’ do not apply in his case. “When Nehru was PM, his girl afterwards got to be PM, and they had family individuals in the best posts in the Congress. When Rajiv Gandhi was PM, some person from their party was the Congress party president; the same was true when it came to Sonia Gandhi. When she was president, Rahul Gandhi held the best post. The choices taken by a family for a party inside their homes are called pariwarvaad. In the BJP, the tall command has been chosen, and each part of my family has worked their way up, from being ABVP karyakartas, challenging decisions from ABVP, to being an MP.

So can that be called family politics?” he questioned. Contesting the Lok Sabha decisions for the fourth time, Raghavendra feels that this term he has been fulfilled with what he has conveyed to his voting public. “At one of the towns, an individual asked me how my father (BSY) is not campaigning for me when in other parties, DK Shivakumar was campaigning for his brother in Bengaluru Provincial, Siddaramaiah for Mysore. I told them my father, Yediyurappa, and brother, who is the state president, have 100 per cent certainty in my win. Our karyakartas are our quality, and they will work on this decision successfully,” he said.

The BJP and the JDS are in collusion with each other in this decision in Karnataka. When asked how much coordination and participation the party specialists of both parties can keep up, particularly after having to battle tooth and nail against each other in the 2023 get-together surveys, the MP answered, “It is a verifiable choice. We have seen how regarded Deve Gowda has been against our party, but afterwards, in front of Modi, he said that they joined hands with the BJP against the Congress. They are working with their hearts and souls,” Raghavendra said. Interestingly, Slam Mandir and Hindutva are vital decision issues in Shimoga, with the BJP-JDS organization together candidates inquiring individuals to vote for Hindutva pride, Ayodhya, and Modi ‘Matomme’ (once more).

Raghavendra, who was campaigning entryway to entryway in Bhadravathi, a constituency that the BJP has never won since Freedom, one that has been beneath the hold of the Congress and JDS, looked upbeat with the acknowledgement by voters there. “The JDS collusion has made a difference. Individuals are also inspired by the way the Ayodhya Sanctuary was built. Indeed, even though the BJP has not won from here since Autonomy, each house from Bhadravathi sent a brick to Ayodhya to offer assistance in constructing the sanctuary. Smash Mandir has had a remarkable impact on individuals and their belief in Modi,” said the MP. Seeking re-election for the fourth time from the situate has, moreover, brought in an undercurrent of anti-incumbency against Raghavendra.

Congress candidate Geetha Shivrajkumar is the daughter of former Karnataka Chief Minister S Bangarappa and sister of sitting Karnataka Chief Minister Madhu Bangarappa. She has been campaigning on how there is a need for change. Bringing aeroplane terminals or creating thoroughfares, like Raghavendra claims, would not contribute to creating the town, but bringing light into the lives of country individuals like her father Bangarappa does, she said. She has been campaigning on the benefits of the Congress’s five ensure plans, but Raghavendra has called them an “utter failure.” “They are taking cash from one hand and giving it over through the other.

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A villager told me how, after a difficult day’s work, he sat down for a drink. He pays Rs 50 as charges for alcohol to the government. He takes a couple of drinks, which are Rs 100, and in turn, spends Rs 3000 a month. Siddaramaiah takes the cash from the spouse and gives Rs 2000 to the spouse, claiming it is government cash.

Is that not by and large cheating?” he asked. As he finished his day’s campaign at an open work close to the final town near the Bhadra Waterway Extend dam, a multipurpose store planned by Sir M Visvesvarayya and built-in 1947, Raghavendra guaranteed he talked of the collusion between the JDS and BJP. He called for the back of the JDS for the BJP for a modern-created India under PM Modi. “Deve Gowda ji and Modi ji have a vision for India, and you are going to be a portion of it. Will you vote for it? When you do your morning pooja and wish for the welfare of your family, will you put one more blossom in the title of Modi?” he offered to the ladies voters among individuals chanting Modi and Deve Gowda’s titles.