Amit Shah to visit Adichunchanagiri Mutt during Karnataka tour to woo Vokkaligas
- BJP national president Amit Shah's scheduled visit to Adichunchanagiri Mutt during his Karnataka tour
- The visit will be an attempt to woo the Vokkaliga community ahead of the early next year's Legislative Assembly election in Karnataka
- The party fears that it may have upset the Vokkaligas with the income tax raids on state energy minister DK Shivakumar
FollowBJP national president Amit Shah's scheduled visit to Adichunchanagiri Mutt during his Karnataka tour starting on August 12 for three days. It is reported that the tour will be an attempt to woo the Vokkaliga community ahead of the early next year's Legislative Assembly election in Karnataka.
However, the news of his visit has also rattled the Karnataka BJP Shah is expected to crack the whip on greed, corruption and put an end to infighting in the state’s unit.
With the state headed for elections next year, analysts said Karnataka could become the entry point for the BJP in the south, where it has little or no representation at all. And the party it seems is looking to making inroads into the two dominant communities in the state, the Lingayats and the Vokkaligas.
The party fears that it may have upset the Vokkaligas with the income tax raids on state energy minister DK Shivakumar.
While the Lingayats are closer to the BJP - Prime Minister Narendra Modi had visited powerful religious-cum-spiritual heads of the Lingayat community Shivakumara Swami, the centenarian pontiff of Siddaganga Mutt in Tumakuru district and Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Swami of Suttur Mutt in Mysuru district – it will now look to woo the other dominant community in southern Karnataka.
However, Suresh Kumar, BJP leader and former state law minister, on Monday, August 7, said that Adichunchanagiri Mutt had organised the event with Shah on its own.
Amit Shah will also take to task the BJP leaders who have been ruining the party’s name in public. BJP leaders say that the Sangolli Rayanna Brigade controversy between BS Yeddyurappa and KS Eshwarappa was a serious setback to the party and Shah will deal with such incidents severely.
