Bengaluru: It is time to put an end to blackmail politics in Karnataka said Union Home Minister Amit Shah. He launched BJP’s Booth Vijay Abhiyan on Saturday at Bengaluru.

BJP booth level Presidents and agents of 28 Assembly constituencies participated in the meeting. Amit Shah in his address in the meeting said that there is no alliance in the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections. He asked party workers not to be misled by talks about the BJP aligning with other parties, especially JD (S).

We cannot leave a JD (S) party that wins 30-35 seats to continue with its blackmail politics. The time has come for BJP workers to settle scores. A vote for the JD (S) is a vote for the Congress adding that both parties are two faces of the same coin, he said.

He ruled-out the speculation of a triangular fight in Karnataka, saying that it was a straight contest between the BJP and the Congress and JD(S) combined. The BJP will fight the polls alone and form its own Government. I appeal to the people of Karnataka to give a full mandate to us to put an end to family politics, corruption and casteism, he added.

He also asked the people of the State to choose between deshbhakt BJP which protects the State and the country from extremists and Congress and JD (S) which defend extremists. On the one hand, there is BJP and PM Modi who have banned extremist organizations like PFI and there is Congress that defends the tukde tukde gang that wants to break the country, he said.

BJP won five of the seven States and then went to polls in 2022. The Congress failed to even become the primary opposition party in Gujarat due to Modi’s popularity, he added.

He said the BJP takes inspiration from Modi inaugurating the 108-ft statue of Nadaprabhu Kempegowda at Bengaluru International Airport to win more than 20 of the 28 seats in Bengaluru. He listed out the contributions of the Modi Government to Bengaluru, especially Metro rail expansion and hoped that the services to BIA will be operational by 2023 end. He also visited a prominent Vokkaliga Mutt in Bengaluru on Saturday.