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The PM addressed party rallies at Humnabad in Bidar district, Vijayapura and Kudachi in Belagavi district, and at each of these places sought to connect with voters by praising local traditions and heroes..
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday targeted the Congress, referring to its recent comments about Lingayat leaders as "corrupt," seeking to drive the community voters away from the Opposition in the Karnataka assembly polls scheduled for May 10...
Modi mentioned about Opposition leader Siddaramaiah's recent comment that the "Lingayat CMs were corrupt," though he did not take his name, while refusing to acknowledge the former CM's clarification he never meant any offence to Lingayats, but his remarks were targeted only at chief minister Basavaraj Bommai...
He reminded the voters in Vijayapura district that it took the BJP government to meet their decades long demand for title-deeds for the Banjara (SC) community, recognising their habitations (thandas) as revenue villages..
"I could see a new self-confidence in them," said Modi, who flew down to Kalaburgi in January to personally kick off distribution of title-deeds to more than 50,000 families the community living in 1,475 habitations in Kalaburagi, Yadgiri, Raichur, Bidar and Vijayapura districts...
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