B S Yeddyurappa says, 'Modi wave' sweeping Karnataka

Shikaripura (Karnataka), Apr 30 Riding a 'Modi wave', the BJP will form the next government in Karnataka with absolute larger part, its chief ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa said today, and ruled out a post-poll alliance with the JD(S) "starting at now".

Pollsters have predicted a hung Assembly in Karnataka, with neither the ruling Congress nor the BJP attaining a majority. They have said the JD(S), of previous executive H D Deve Gowda, would develop as the kingmaker.

Yeddyurappa, a Lingayat strongman who had bolstered the interest for religious minority status for the group when he headed the Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP) that he had framed in the wake of splitting far from BJP, said the issue would not hurt the appointive prospects of the saffron party and rather "reverse discharge" on the decision Congress.

The state BJP chief also said the saffron party was campaigning as a "united force" to achieve the mission of winning 150 seats in the May 12 Assembly polls.

The Siddaramaiah government had recently recommended to the Center religious minority status for Lingayats and its sub-standing Veerashaiva Lingayats, in a clear move to cut into the strong vote base of the BJP which has customarily sponsored the party.

The Lingayats, who represent around 17 percent of the state's populace, have an extensive nearness in north and focal Karnataka, particularly in Shivamogga, Davanagere and Chitradurga, where their votes can be basic to the discretionary result.

The BJP has reacted carefully to the contentious issue, while the Congress, uncertain of the results it might host for the get-together in the decisions, has additionally held it as a second thought.

The 75-year-old Yeddyurappa, who has won seven times from Shikaripura, said he would triumph with a colossal edge from his home seat, as the Lingayats would not disappoint him.

He dismissed the Congress' allegation that the BJP was sstoking caste and communal sentiments to win the elections. "Not in any manner," he said.

"Had the Congress been common, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah would not have been challenging from a moment put, Badami, a voting public with a sizeable populace of Kuruba," he said. Siddaramaiah hails from the Kuruba community.

Siddaramaiah is "scared" of losing his conventional Chamundeshwari situate, from where he has won five times since 1983, he included.

The BJP has fielded its resourceful Ballari MP B Sriramulu against Siddaramaiah in Badami in North Karnataka.

"We are certain that Sriramulu will win that seat," Yeddyurappa said.

Asked if the BJP's claimed "public governmental issues" would work for it in beach front Karnataka, Yeddyurappa stated, "There is no such thing out there. Congress is spreading lies. There is just Modi wave and we will clear the beach front district as well as the whole state."

He said the gathering would secure a lion's share and frame the legislature. "There is no doubt of post-survey organization together with JD(S) starting at now," Yeddyurappa said.

The JD(S) and BJP had cobbled together a coalition and shaped the administration headed by Kumaraswamy in 2006.

It fallen in October 2007, after the JD(S) backtracked on its guarantee and declined to give over control of energy to Yeddyurappa under the understanding the two parties had gone into over rotational chief ministership.

This made ready for polls which saw the saffron party shape its first government in the south in 2008.

Replying to a query on whether Siddaramaiah's rehashed reference to his detainment for alleged corruption at election meetings was harming his picture, Yeddyurappa stated, "He is befuddling and deluding open since all defilement accusations against me have been put aside by the court."

Yeddyurappa was the main boss priest of Karnataka to have been imprisoned over assertions of debasement, and had burned through 25 days in a correctional facility.

Karnataka will go to polls on May 12 to choose the 224-member assembly. The outcomes will be pronounced on May 15.