Former Chief Minister of Karnataka and BJP candidate for the Gadag-Haveri Lok Sabha constituency Basavaraj Bommai said Dr BR Ambedkar should be addressed as "Mahatma Ambedkar" and treading the path of the Constitution is the real way of showing respect to the nation.
BJP leader and former Chief Minister of Karnataka, Basavaraj Bommai, said on Friday that the party aims to make Narendra Modi the Prime Minister again.
Coming down heavily on the Siddaramaiah-led government, former Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Thursday said the fiscal condition of the state has deteriorated under the ruling Congress.
"The Congress was not finding candidates to contest the coming parliamentary polls due to fear of defeat. Even the ministers are hesitant to contest. The reality is that the Congress does not have the candidates to fight the elections," Bommai said.
Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda has played a big role in addressing the problems of Karnataka and everyone was proud of him as he has been the first Kannadiga to hoist the Kannada flag atop the Red Fort, said Former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai demanded a probe by the National Investigation Agency into the raising of pro-Pakistan slogans and the dismissal of the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government in the state since "it was not functioning according to the Constitution".
Karnataka former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai charged the state government of fooling the people of Karnataka by not submitting the memorandum in the prescribed format and blaming the central government for political purposes in regard to the grant for the Upper Bhadra project.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has criticised the current Congress government for delaying the investigation of 40 per cent commission charges against his previous BJP government, stating that the government's treasury is empty.
To cover up its mistakes, the Karnataka state government is holding a protest in Delhi against the Central Government which was nothing but a political stunt, former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Monday.
After the announcement from Prime Minister Narendra Modi that senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani will be conferred the nation's top civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai called him "a real son of the soil."
"Accepting the Kantharaj Backward Commission report was nothing but a Lok Sabha election stunt. Only the strong backward classes were deriving the benefits of reservation and the most backward classes needed to be rendered justice," Bommai said.
The Vokkaliga community has shed sweat to achieve in the field of agriculture and they must achieve the same feat in the field of trade and commerce, said former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday.