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.
The case pertains to a group of men allegedly barging into the room of a lodge at Hangal in Karnataka's Haveri district and thrashing a couple for the 'crime' of being together despite practising different faiths.
Alleging that efforts have been made to "hush up" the "moral policing" incident in Karnataka's Haveri, former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday asked the Congress-ruled government in the state to constitute a special investigation team to probe the incident.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday accused the state Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of indulging minority appeasement politics while doing "injustice" to Dalits and tribal communities.
Referring to the management of the drought situation by the Siddaramaiah government, Former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said that the current attitude of the Congress government shows that it is not alive to the problems of the farmers.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday took a dig at the Siddaramaiah government and said that the state government seemed to be getting wisdom after committing a bundle of mistakes over the Cauvery water issue and now it was talking to farmers and legal experts.
While talking to the reporters, said that the state government is committing mistakes repeatedly and putting the people of the state in a difficult situation.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraja Bommai on Monday spoke on the continuing row over Cauvery Water sharing and said that the government has failed in Cauvery water management since the beginning.
“Today we are complaining to the Governor about the video shooting case at Udupi College. This case should be fully investigated, and a SIT should be formed. This must be investigated by SIT only. We have no faith in the Udupi Police Department,” said Former CM Basavaraj Bommai.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday slammed newly-elected Congress government for 'diverting' Rs 11,000 crores the SC/ST sub-plans to implement the five guarantees and said that this was the "greatest injustice done by Congress Govt on Dalits."