Vijayapura: Refusing to comment on the controversy surfaced over the changes made in the school textbooks by Textbook Revision Committee, Senior Leader of the BJP and Former Chief Minister B. S. Yediyurappa has only said that Government has clarified that it will address the errors that have been pointed out in the revised textbooks.
Yediyurappa was speaking to the mediapersons before taking part in the campaign of Legislative Council polls for North-West Teachers’ and Graduates’ segment in Bagalakote and Vijayapura. “There is no need for me to comment now on the textbook revision as the Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has already made a statement on this. It is not necessary to make it a big controversy,” appealed the former CM.
Responding to the statements of Congress Leaders on Rashtriya Swayamsevaka Sangha (RSS) knickers, Yediyurappa said, “This kind of statement will not bring any respect to them. I thought the leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah would behave respectfully but he failed to do so. If he continues this behaviour, it will ruin his image among voters.”
Expressing confidence of the party coming out in flying colours in the ongoing MLC polls for Teachers’ and Graduates’ Constituency, Yediyurappa said that, “BJP candidates will register a thumping victory in the Legislative Council polls in all the segments. The BJP Government always worked for the welfare of the teachers and graduates in the State. I am confident that with the emerging victory the party will get majority in the Karnataka Legislative Council.”
Speaking on the occasion, sitting MLC, Hanumanth Nirani, nominee of the North-West Graduates’ segment, said that, “It is because of the efforts of former CM Yediyurappa, in his first tenure, many private schools were rescued from closing. After Yediyurappa came at the helm, the wages of the State Government employees were doubled with the implementation of Fifth Pay Commission.”
“In the midst of the financial crisis during the first wave of Covid – 19 pandemic, Karnataka is the only state in the country where it did not cut even one percent of the salary of the Government employees. The credit should go to Yediyurappa. The Central and State Governments are making sincere efforts to generate millions of jobs by encouraging start-ups, digital India, Make-In India and many other popular youth-centric programmes. I appeal to all the voters to exercise their franchise to BJP in the June 13 Legislative Council polls,” appealed Nirani.
Teachers’ segment representative and MLC Arun Shahapur, who is looking for his third consecutive win, recalled all the programmes launched, by B. S. Yediyurappa during his regime, for the welfare of teachers and graduates in the State. “If there are government high schools and colleges in remote villages, the credit should be given to former CM Yediyurappa for his revolutionary initiatives carried out during his first term as Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister. I appeal to all the voters to strengthen the Government and party by ensuring victory for the party candidates in the MLC polls,” said Shahapur while addressing the voters in a private convention hall in Vijayapura.
