What is the point in giving big assurances, Shivakumar asks about BJP election manifesto

Belagavi: Deputy CM Shivakumar criticizes BJP manifesto, questions unfulfilled promises, and challenges Kumaraswamy's allegations.

The BJP election manifesto is a pointless document, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar said in Belagavi on Monday.

“The BJP-led NDA government has been ruling at the Centre for 10 years now. They have very few achievements to show. If you have failed in fulfilling the assurances made a decade ago, what is the point in giving big assurances now?” the KPCC president said.

“That is why I say the BJP manifesto is a pointless document,” he told reporters on Monday.

“I would like to ask a question to BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi. What were the assurances that you have been giving since the last decade? What were the promises you made before the people of the country before 2014? How many of them have you fulfilled? What is the status update on your promises? What do you feel about not fulfilling them? Do you feel guilty or not? If you go on giving assurances after assurances, it only means that you have no shame,” he said.

“I think that the BJP has no moral right to release the manifesto. Nothing of importance has been achieved in the last 10 years. The promised jobs were not created. Farmers income was not doubled. I want to ask the BJP leaders with what face will they face the public with another manifesto? When this is the case, the people will not pay heed to such documents,” he said.

He demanded that the BJP should release a report on its administration and various schemes and development projects implemented in various sectors since 2014, instead of releasing a manifesto.

He claimed that there was no pro-Modi wave in the State. “If that was the case, why did they change 14 of their candidates? Where have most of the sitting MPs and big party leaders gone?” he asked. “Karnataka has a wave in favour of the Congress. In fact, there is no Modi wave in the entire country. All the surveys that are predicting the BJP’s victory are false. The BJP will lose and the Congress will form the government,” he said.