Karnataka Assembly Polls: Union Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah said former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar will loose the elections as people have always voted for the party..

The union minister asserted that public of Hubballi- Dharwad-Central has always voted for the BJP and claimed that six-time MLA Jagadish Shettar will loose the election.

Adressing a press conference, Amit Shah said, “There will be no loss, Jagdish Shettar will himself lose election, Huballii has always voted for BJP and all workers of BJP are united.”

The Home Minister further accused Congress of playing “appeasement politics” and said, “…Religion-based reservation is unconstitutional. Congress leaders are saying that they’ll implement reservation for Muslims, but then, whose reservation will they reduce…”

Shah launched several attacks on former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and said, “56 lakh farmers are getting Rs 10,000 every year under direct benefit transfers….does Rahul Gandhi think that these many farmers are of two-three families…”

“During Manmohan Singh’s government, Karnataka got about Rs 94,224 crore in terms of tax devolution and grant-in-aid between 2009 and 2014. The Modi government gave Rs 2,26,418 crore between 2014 to 2019. This is 140 per cent more than the money sent during Congress government,” added Shah.

The minister further listed schemes rolled out by the BJP-led government that contributed in the development of the Southern state.