Daijiworld Media Network - Mysuru(DC)
Mysuru, Apr 25: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah counter attacked the BJP president B S Yeddyurappa's over his Congress dynasty barb by questioning the credentials of the saffron party to make the attack.
He was referring to Yeddyurappa's repeated charge during the campaign that the Congress was a party of dynastic politics.
He questioned BJP's 'moral grounds' for calling Congress a party of dynastic politics when Yeddyurappa's son BY Raghavendra had been elected to parliament and the assembly in the past. "Who is Raghavendra? Whose son is he? Is he not Yeddyurappa's son? Raghavendra was MP. What should we call it? Shouldn't we call it dynastic politics? These people (BJP) are fooling around everyone," Siddaramaiah told reporters in Mysuru.
He also said that BSY was always "a weak man" and would not win the election. "Yeddyurappa is always weak, not just now. He is a tainted person. How can a tainted person be strong? People are not ready to accept him as a leader because his personality is tainted," he added.
Yatindra Siddaramaiah is contesting from Varuna, which the chief minister had represented. Siddaramaiah is now contesting from Chamundeshwari in Mysuru and Badami in Bagalkot district in north Karnataka.
BY Raghavendra was a Lok Sabha member and is now an MLA. BY Yeddyurappa's second son Vijayendra was also projected as a candidate from Varuna to take on Siddaramaiah's son Yatindra Siddaramaiah in the May 12 assembly elections. But it was announced by Yeddyurappa that he would not contest.