Siddaramaiah says Modi is coming to loot Karnataka by means of Amul, paperwork current Amul expanded inside the state beneath Congress

With the Karnataka assembly elections approaching, the Congress celebration, which is the primary opposition celebration inside the state, has started having fun with dirty politics over milk by pitting Amul in opposition to Karnataka’s mannequin ‘Nandini’. Continuing his offensive in opposition to the ruling BJP, senior Congress chief Siddaramaiah on Sunday (April 9) tweeted asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi if the intention of his go to was “to loot the state.”

“Is your purpose of coming to Karnataka to give to Karnataka or to loot from Karnataka? You have already stolen banks, ports and airports from Kannadigas. Are you now trying to steal Nandini (KMF) from us?” Siddaramaiah requested.

“It was Gujarat’s Baroda Bank that subsumed our Vijaya Bank. Ports and Airports were handed over to Gujarat’s Adani. Now, Amul from Gujarat is planning to eat our KMF (Nandini). Mr Narendra Modi, Are we the enemies for Gujaratis?” Instead of giving 2 crore jobs a 12 months to youths, Narendra Modi took away the roles of Kannadigas from our banks, ports and airports, he further acknowledged, together with that “Now Karnataka BJP wants to hurt the prospects of our farmers by giving KMF to Amul.” Modi was in Mysuru and Chamarajanagara districts to attend an event commemorating 50 years of ‘Project Tiger’.

The former chief ministers’ tweets obtained right here ahead of PM Modi’s go to to the poll-bound state on Sunday.

Prime Minister @narendramodi avare,

Is your goal of coming to Karnataka is to supply to Karnataka or to loot from Karnataka?

You have already stolen banks, ports & airports from Kannadigas. Are you now making an attempt to steal Nandini (KMF) from us?#AnswerMadiModi #SaveNandini pic.twitter.com/LooivhuEn3

— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) April 9, 2023

Notably, on April 5, Amul’s official Twitter take care of posted an infographic hinting at its entry into Karnataka. This proved to be the opportune second which Congress Party was looking for to sort out the BJP sooner than the state election. Congress immediately linked the Amul infographic and Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s December 2022 speech whereby he often called for increased cooperation between Amul and Nandini, which is owned by the Karnataka Milk Federation to unfold misleading information concerning Amul’s acquisition of the state’s native dairy mannequin Nandini. When the matter escalated and grew proper right into a full-fledged controversy, Congress started milking it further for political optimistic elements.

Siddaramaiah, the Congress chief and former Karnataka Chief Minister, purposefully used the Amul-Nandini controversy, which patently was created by him and members of his private celebration, to inflame regional tensions amongst Karnataka voters sooner than the state elections. However, in his haste to ship down BJP, Siddaramaiah possibly forgot that Amul had already expanded its footprints inside the state when he was on the helm of affairs in 2017.

In actuality, the minutes of Amul’s 2017 annual primary meeting, clearly specified that in 2017 the cooperative launched Amul Milk in quite a few components of the nation along with cities in Northern Karnataka. While sharing particulars of how the sale of the cooperative elevated inside the remaining seven years then, the company categorically talked about, “We expanded our fresh products’ footprint by launching Amul Milk in Chandigarh city, several towns of Himachal Pradesh, North Bengal including Siliguri, towns of northern Karnataka and most recently in Jabalpur.” The minutes of Amul’s forty third annual primary meeting is likely to be be taught proper right here.

Excerpts from Amul’s forty third AGM

This meeting took place on June 15, 2017, and Congress senior chief Siddaramaiah served as Chief Minister of Karnataka from May 13, 2013, until May 17, 2018. This clearly signifies that Amul entered Karnataka in 2017, whereas the Congress was in vitality inside the state and Siddaramaiah himself was the CM.

Additionally, the incumbent Chief Minister of Karnataka Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday clarified that his authorities had taken all varieties of measures to make Nandini major on the nationwide stage. Calling the house mannequin Nandini the pleasure of Karnataka Bommai acknowledged, “Nandini’s market reach is wide, there is no need to fear Amul.” Congress politicising all of the issues simply is not inside the curiosity of the state, he had acknowledged.

“We are also going to other states and marketing….we will do all that is required to put Amul behind in the competition.” State Cooperation Minister S T Somashekar on Sunday reiterated that there was no proposal to merge KMF with Amul.

So to now point out that Amul is attempting to ‘root out’ Nandini by coming into Karnataka and thus undermining Kannadiga identification and custom and that the Modi authorities needs to harm Kannadiga farmers’ prospects by giving Amul KMF is a complete fallacy that Congress is fanning for obvious political purchase ahead of the upcoming important assembly elections.

Consumer gadgets are marketed throughout the nation and Congress’ declare that Amul being purchased in Karnataka is a conspiracy to root out the state milk cooperative’s enterprise is a baseless one. Customers buy merchandise primarily based totally on their very personal consolation and selection.

Congress tries to fan hatred in opposition to one thing that comes from Gujarat

But why aren’t we shocked? That’s because of the Congress Party’s disdain within the path of Gujarat and Gujaratis is nothing new. In actuality, it emerged almost rapidly after Modi took office. Since the two prime males (Narendra Modi and Amit Shah) working the nation are Gujaratis, and so by extension, Congress paints all Gujaratis as evil. Rahul Gandhi, the Congress blue-eyed boy, who promised to make India ‘hate-free’ in his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra,’ has conveniently forgot on quite a few occasions before now that Gujarat could possibly be very quite a bit a part of Bharat. He has certainly not left a single various to insult Gujaratis.

In 2021, all through the runup to the Assam elections, Rahul Gandhi acknowledged that to fund the extra wage charge of Assam tea staff, he’ll take money from Gujarati tea retailers.

In September 2021, when authorities had been busy busting drug rackets, that are generally used for terror funding, Rahul Gandhi as soon as extra attacked Gujaratis and stable aspersions that they are drug addicts.

During an election rally inside the run-up to the 2019 elections, Rahul Gandhi had mocked an entire group in Gujarat by saying, “Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi, Narendra Modi… how come they all have Modi as a common surname? How come all thieves have Modi as a common surname?” He has now been held accountable on this case and he is an out-on-bail convict.

When the police not too way back arrested a conman from Gujarat who posed as a member of the PMO entrusted with the accountability of looking for enchancment in lodge facilities in Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress ecosystem and its elements fell over themselves to defame Gujarat and Gujaratis over the incident.

Siddharamiah, Congress senior celebration chief, has now taken up the place his supremo left off. He has begun to unfold this freshly woven anti-Gujarati rhetorics in order to attraction to votes and reestablish his stronghold in Karnataka. However, sooner than transferring ahead, the Congress must pause and ponder that of their decided attempt to reclaim a foothold in Karnataka, they’re having fun with with fireside. The celebration is presumably ignoring the reality {that a} former CM tweeting such disparaging remarks a few explicit group when a big aspect of that inhabitants dwells there may jeopardise their lives. Will the celebration accept accountability if the CM’s effort to pit Kannadigas in opposition to Gujaratis leads to the latter being victims of hate crime inside the state?