Photographs: Jagadish Kurugodu Vicky Nanjappa
it was the turn of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka to hit back at the Congress and in a bid to do so, it held a mammoth rally in Bellary on Friday. Leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha,Sushma Swaraj, who was invited by the organisers of the rally, the Reddy brothers said that the biggest dream of the Bharatiya Janata Party was to fly the flag of the party in Andhra Pradesh.
Swaraj said she had come to Bellary on the auspicious occasion of Vara Mahalakshmi 12 years ago and had prayed for the BJP to come to power in Karnataka. "That dream has come true. I come here every year and pray on this day and today in my prayers I have asked for the flag of my party to fly high in Andhra Pradesh. I am sure my prayer will be answered and it is just a matter of time before the BJP forms the government in Andhra Pradesh," she said.
"The Congress is singing a different tune today"
Image: Sushma Swaraj at the Durgamma Gudi temple in BellaryPhotographs: Jagadish Kurugodu
'The Congress has looted the country for 60 years'
Image: BJP leader Anant Kumar, Karnataka CM BS Yeddyurappa and Sushma Swaraj at the rally in BellaryPhotographs: Jagadish Kurugodu
"I have decided to undertake a mega rally in September. It will be a government sponsored rally and will comprise the beneficiaries of the girl education programme (the Bhagya Lakshmi scheme). Around Bellary, there are about 50,000 beneficiaries and this rally will be unique in nature," Yeddyurappa said.
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