Interview with M.B. Patil: ‘Congress will have region-specific strategies for 2023 Assembly elections in Karnataka’
The Hindu
Lingayat-Veerashaiva community keen to back Congress, says newly-appointed campaign committee chairman M.B. Patil
With just over a year left for the Assembly elections in Karnataka, Congress has appointed former Water Resources Minister and Lingayat leader from Vijayapura district M.B. Patil as Chairman of the Campaign Committee. His appointment is seen as a balancing act to address regional and caste calculations, and comes at a time when Congress seems to be in an upbeat mood following election victories. Excerpts from an interview.
Though I have my own plan, I will come up with a master plan based on the guidance of all leaders in the party. Opinion of youngsters will be sought. My focus will be to get the party back to power as a team. It is not only to come back to power, but also to give good governance and undertake development work. We will showcase the work of Congress governments of the past that needs to be communicated to people, and bad governance of the BJP government.