Accusing Chief Minister H DKumaraswamy of indulging in "divide and rule" policy, Karnataka BJP president B S Yeddyurappa today squarely blamed him for the demand for a separate north Karnataka state.
"The BJP is for a united and prosperousKarnataka," the former chief minister said and appealed to the people of north Karnataka not to allow separatist sentiments to take over.
"The chief minister is indulging in a divide and rule policy of north and south Karnataka. Congress has to make its stand clear on this as Congress has made Kumaraswamy of JD(S) with 37 MLAs the chief minister," Yeddyurappa told reporters after chairing the state BJP's core committee meeting here.
Citing the bandh called in north Karnataka with a demand for a separate state, he said "the complete responsibility for this has to be borne by chief minister Kumaraswamy and the congress party."
On the state government's plans to restrict movement of media personnel inside Vidhana Soudha, the seat of state legislature and secretariat, he called it "dictatorial" and a move aimed at hiding "scandals."
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