Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Apr 8: “At present, JDS cannot even be deemed to a regional party. It is confined to only a handful of districts. The bypoll in three assembly constituencies in the state has become a do or die battle for the survival for that party,” ridiculed Shimoga MP, B Y Raghavendra.

Speaking to press persons here on Thursday April 7, Raghavendra said, “Deve Gowda has criticized BJP as a party ruled by ‘low command’.  He is wrong. BJP has its high command in Delhi. In JDS, there is no high command. Because, it is being run by a father and his children.”

Raghavendra claimed that the agricultural budget presented by the BJP government in the state has succeeded in appealing to all the people. He asserted that BJP will win all the three assembly seats in the bypoll, besides opening its account in Kerala assembly election. Terming land scams as figments of imagination let loose by the opposition, he preferred not to elaborate on the issue as the same is before the court.

MP, Nalin Kumar Kateel, and BJP leader, Srikar Prabhu, were present.