KARNATAKA

'Congress party is like Pandavas, BJP like Kauravas'

PTI8_15_2017_000168B (File) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday compared the upcoming assembly elections in the state to Kurukshetra War and the Congress to righteous Pandavas and the BJP to Kauravas

Karnataka is scheduled to go to polls in early part of the year and the BJP has already started 'Parivartana' rally in the state.

Addressing a press conference in Bengaluru, Siddaramaiah said, "This time, elections are no less than any war. In this election, we are like Pandavas, who are walking on the righteous path while BJP is like Kauravas, who are walking on the wrong path."

"I had said they (BJP) are Hindutva terrorists. I am also a Hindu, but I am a Hindu with humanity, they are Hindus without humanity. That is the difference between me and (them). This time elections are not being fought between two individuals but it is being fought between two ideologies," he added.

The incumbent Congress is headed by Siddaramaiah, whose government won 122 seats in the 2013 assembly elections, defeating the BJP, which managed to win only 40 seats.  

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