Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (DC)

Bengaluru, Apr 2: After slip of the tongue by its president Amit Shah and leader Prahlad Joshi, Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday April 1 once again committed a blunder causing embarrassment to its own leaders, when it released a 'chargesheet' in a bid to target the ruling Congress government.

The BJP released a chargesheet against the Congress government listing its alleged failures on law and order, poor infrastructure etc. In the chargesheet it mentioned that the garbage menace of Bengaluru city featured even in international media portals like 'New York Times'. But the report on Mandoor garbage disposal was published in the year 2012 when the BJP government with Jagadish Shettar as chief minister was in power.

The BJP high command has been left red faced after the party in a bid to target the ruling government, ended up mentioning about major garbage disposal issue occurred when it was in power along with the BBMP in 2012.

The report was published by the New York Times about Mandoor landfill on October 26, 2012.

Earlier the Congress and the netizens targeted the BJP for using pictures of garbage which were in fact from Mizoram and Nepal garbage and not from Bengaluru in its booklet.

Among the other charges mentioned in the chargesheet, released in three booklets, were a three fold increase in crime in Karnataka, atrocities on Dalits, women and children, attacks on honest officials, killings of Hindutva activists, steep rise in farmers suicides in the last three years, drug mafia ruling the roost in Bengaluru and poor infrastructure in the city.

Releasing the booklet, union minister for law and information and technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the Karnataka government has nothing to show to the public when it seeks votes from them for the May 12 Assembly elections.

Speaking to reporters, he said, "Let me tell Siddaramaiah that you have not even four-five outstanding areas of achievements which you can convey (to the public)... you go everywhere (portraying) a negative BJP and negative Yeddyurappa."

The union minister said Congress was losing its base across India due to misgovernance. "The record of the Congress is that it could not win a single seat in Tripura or a single seat in Nagaland, a traditional pro-Congress bastion for the last 70 years." Congress could not perform in Nagaland and Meghalaya. Nagaland has 88 per cent Christian population, he said. On the other hand, BJP is in power in 15 states while its allies are Chief Ministers in seven states, Prasad said.

State BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa, who also spoke, said the Siddaramaiah government has pushed Karnataka behind by at least 20 years in terms of development due to crumbling infrastructure and pathetic law and order in the state.

With PTI Inputs