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By taking swift enactment to rehabilitate families, mostly Muslims, aft the demolition of their illegally built houses connected authorities onshore successful Kogilu Layout adjacent Yelahanka successful Bengaluru, the ruling Congress successful Karnataka appears to person yielded to the “minority ballot slope politics” and diktat of the AICC.
The contented took nationalist and planetary attraction aft Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan deed retired astatine the Congress government’s demolition drive, terming it arsenic “bulldozer raj” and seemingly comparing it to the alleged “anti-minority” thrust implemented by the BJP authorities successful Uttar Pradesh.
Political observers presumption AICC wide caput (Organisation) K.C. Venugopal’s station connected X arsenic a directive to the Congress dispensation successful the State to instrumentality hurried enactment to safeguard the “interest of minorities”. It is besides seen arsenic “undermining” the authorization of the elected authorities headed by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.
Earlier too, the Congress precocious bid had publically nudged the State authorities connected respective occasions, including directing the Chief Minister to cull the Social and Educational Survey (caste census) conducted successful 2015.
Apparently, the Congress-led State authorities appears to beryllium serving the party’s interests successful Kerala, which is expected to ballot for the Assembly successful March/April 2026. Earlier successful February 2024, the State authorities paid compensation of ₹15 lakh to the household of a idiosyncratic from Wayanad successful Kerala, who died aft being attacked by an elephant from Karnataka. In August 2024, the authorities announced that it would conception 100 houses for victims of a landslide in Wayanad; the constituency was past represented by Rahul Gandhi and present by Priyanka Gandhi. The Opposition BJP questioned the rationale down some decisions portion accusing the authorities of doing it astatine the behest of the Gandhi family.
The existent contented for the larger nationalist is wherefore the Congress party’s cardinal leaders remained soundless erstwhile a ample fig of houses constructed connected Raja Kaluve oregon authorities lands successful Bengaluru were demolished successful the past, and houses were not fixed to them? Why had the enactment precocious bid not expressed akin sensitivity for the rehabilitation of thousands of families who had mislaid houses successful monsoon floods successful antithetic parts of Karnataka?
The Opposition BJP asked wherefore the State governments successful Kerala and Karnataka, and the Congress precocious command, did not rise the same concern erstwhile houses of Kannadigas were demolished astatine Baina formation successful the South Goa territory astir a decennary ago, erstwhile Mr. Siddaramaiah was heading the Congress authorities successful the State.
Though the authorities claimed that it would supply houses to families connected humanitarian grounds, the nationalist cognition was that the ruling dispensation had taken a speedy determination to support the number community’s ballot slope intact with the Congress, some successful Karnataka and Kerala.
