BJP urges D.K. Shivakumar to hold local body elections

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Dakshina Kannada portion   of the BJP president   Satish Kumpala addressing a property   league  astatine  the BJP enactment      office, successful  Mangaluru connected  Friday.

Dakshina Kannada portion of the BJP president Satish Kumpala addressing a property league astatine the BJP enactment office, successful Mangaluru connected Friday. | Photo Credit: H.S. MANJUNATH

The BJP, connected Friday, urged the caller Chief Minister, D.K. Shivakumar, to clasp section assemblage elections successful the State.

Addressing property persons here, Satish Kumpala, president, Dakshina Kannada portion of the BJP, said that galore metropolis corporations, including Mangaluru, and different municipality section bodies, gram panchayats, and zilla and taluk panchayats are looking to clasp elections pursuing the expiry of the word of elected councils.

With the alteration successful enactment successful the government, Mr. Shivakumar should hasten the process of conducting these elections, helium said.

Mr. Kumpala said that galore section bodies are yet to person the 15th Finance Commission grant, arsenic the State has not held elections. Meanwhile, immoderate gram panchayats person not yet submitted money utilisation certificates to the government.

Old vino successful caller bottle

At the aforesaid time, Mr. Kumpala said the alteration of defender appears to beryllium an “old vino successful a caller bottle”.

He alleged that the medication of the Congress authorities successful the State, implicit the past 3 years, has been marred by corruption, hatred politics, and the appeasement of minorities.

“The BJP hopes that Mr. Shivakumar’s tenure volition beryllium escaped of hatred politics,” helium said.

Mapping nether SIR

When asked astir Dakshina Kannada signaling lone 88% advancement successful the mapping of voters nether the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), Mr. Kumpala said that the territory medication should person taken governmental parties into assurance during the process of mapping. It besides raises a question whether the Booth Level Officers are truly moving efficiently, helium said.

Planting saplings

Mr. Kumpala said that the BJP workers volition works astatine slightest 1 sapling successful each of the 1,876 booths successful Dakshina Kannada until June 22 to people Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s milestone arsenic India’s longest-serving Prime Minister. On June 10, helium volition overtake Jawaharlal Nehru’s tenure arsenic the country’s longest-serving elected leader.

The workers person been told that they tin works immoderate fig of autochthonal saplings successful the jurisdiction of each booth.

The BJP’s nationalist wide caput Radha Mohan Das Agarwal volition be a relation to beryllium organised by the enactment successful Mangaluru connected June 13 to observe the milestone, helium said.

Published - June 05, 2026 07:07 p.m. IST

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