Bengaluru: The BJP will hold special programmes across the country on November 15 to mark the 151st birth anniversary of freedom fighter Birsa Munda, Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council Chalavadi Narayanaswamy said on Thursday.
Speaking to reporters at the party’s state office, Jagannath Bhavan, he said Munda dedicated his life to the country and that his contribution is being remembered across India. He said the BJP ST Morcha has planned several programmes, and that Munda’s history will be told to the present generation.
Narayanaswamy said Munda belonged to an oppressed community and that the BJP observes his birthday as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas.
Attacking the Congress, he said the party claims that only it gave its life for the freedom struggle but shows no concern for Munda. He alleged that the Congress has hidden many figures like him. He said the BJP made Droupadi Murmu, who belongs to the Scheduled Tribes, the President, that the previous Governor of Karnataka belonged to the Scheduled Castes and that the present Governor is from the Golla/Yadava community. He also said the state Congress has not made a single woman a minister so far.
He said the Congress was not a party but an organisation during the freedom movement, with Mahatma Gandhi at the forefront, and that Gandhi had said it should be dissolved after Independence. He claimed the Congress was not founded by Indians but by A.O. Hume, and remarked that the progeny of the British is still alive in India.
On Sonia Gandhi’s recently released book, he said people were questioning her remark about shedding tears over the demolition of the Babri Masjid, and asking why there were no tears when soldiers died, when Hindus were killed by terrorists in Pahalgam, during the Mumbai attack or the Sikh genocide. He said her own book suggests that Sonia Gandhi made a mistake.
On Scheduled Caste Sub Plan and Tribal Sub Plan funds, he said no Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe Congress MLA had questioned their use for the guarantee schemes, but the BJP had.
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