Karnataka will open doors for BJP in south: Amit Shah

Mysuru: While admitting that the BJP’s strategies for north India would not work in Karnataka as the dynamics were different in each state, BJP president Amit Shah claimed here on Saturday that the state would become “a big corridor for the party in the south during the Lok Sabha elections of 2019.”

“I will go on another tour of  the state after two days and with that I will have completed touring it. Going by the response, it is very clear that people have already decided  to vote for the BJP and remove the Congress government as they have confidence in Prime Minister, Narendra Modi,” he asserted.

Mr Shah, who was speaking to reporters here, observed that although there was a triangular fight in some places  it was mainly a straight fight between the Congress and BJP in others. “We may not have won any seats in Mysuru in the last poll, but this time the BJP will give a good show here too.   We do not need any support, we will come to power with a  full majority of our own,” he declared.

Asked if the party planned to use the Hindutva card or the development plank these elections, he said, “Even (Congress president), Rahul Gandhi has started visiting temples. We are keeping to the agenda of development.”

As for the Congress party, he claimed it was  using the Karnataka government as its “ATM.”