Daijiworld Media Network - Sirsi (SP)
Sirsi, Mar 30: Uttara Kannada Lok Sabha constituency candidate from the BJP Anant Kumar Hegde has reiterated that it would be sufficient if Hindus alone caste their votes in his favour. Spelling out his total commitment to a similar statement in this connection already made by him earlier, he challenged the Election Commission to book him for this utterance.
Speaking at the convention of the booth level BJP workers held at the Samaj Mandir Siddapur near here on Sunday March 29, he reasoned, that people and political parties are appeasing minorities for getting their votes. As such, indulging in politics for the purpose of appeasing and garnering votes from the majority can not be termed as sin. "I indulge in politics in the names of Lord Sri Rama and Sri Krishna," he claimed.
Hegde said, he was congratulated for his previous statement on the issue, by many people who met him at a meeting in Bangalore recently. He criticized Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president R V Deshpande for filing a complaint against him with the Election Commission, in this regard.
District in-charge minister Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri, party's district Election Committee head N G Kolle and BJP district unit president Vinod Prabhu were present.