BGR - SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN DURING KARNATAKA ELECTIONS, 2018

BGR - SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN DURING KARNATAKA ELECTIONS, 2018

MODI MASALA - KARNATAKA ELECTIONS

Modi took aggressive stand in Karnataka elections and going all out to play front foot, like he did in UP elections- Arnab Goswami

Yes, Modi played with front foot attack and scored double century in UP where the bowler is talented but inexperienced medium pacer - Akhilesh, backstabbed by his captain Mulayam Singh Yadav. In Karnataka the story will be different as he has to play most experienced and outstanding leg spinner - Siddaramaiah, who has solid backing of his captain Rahul Gandhi.

WITH KARNATAKA IT WILL BE END OF CONGRESS MUKTH BHARATH & BEGINNING OF MODI MUKTH INDIA

Beware of BJP. AP was promised golden platter and now reluctant to offer even earthen platter. Most of the commitments in reorganization bill like spl status, capital city, railway zone, steel plant, port, education institutions, Polavaram are not honored with time frames and commitments, forget about gems and diamonds.

Before elections they say namma bengaluru, namma Deve Gowda, namma nijalingappa, namma raita etc and after elections they may say avara bangaluru, avara Gowda, avara nijalingappa, avara raita. Vote for party and leader who understand Karnataka better and fulfill the aspirations of people rather than someone who make hollow promises and disappear.

PREFER SUITABLE WALA (MANNINA MAGA) TO SUIT WALA.

BJP is desperate to make Jinnah photo in Aligarh Muslim University, which is there from pre-independence period and Pakistan praising Tippu Sultan etc as communal issues and use it to its advantage through Hindu vote polarization.  It’s not real love for Hindus; it is artificial love to win Karnataka elections.

See the other side of mirror in Kashmir. BJP Dy CM Kavinder Gupta stirred a controversy by stating Kathua rape incident as “Rasana is a chotti si baat “and we should not give Rasana so much bhaav (importance). He landed in another controversy by exhibiting soft corner on stone pelters who killed 22-year-old youth Tirumani a tourist from TN. Again, it’s not the love for Muslim youth of Kashmir. It is to safeguard their positions and to safe guards their lives and properties at the cost of innocent public.

WHY ARE WE FIGHTING FOR THESE CHAMELEONS?

Modi Ji promises not delivered to farmers:

Please do not fall fray for Modi Ji impressive political speeches. It is a game plan to seek your votes and later forget about the promises, as he did in case of AP. Farmers are the worst sufferers in last four years and even their suicides did not melt the stone cladded hearts of Delhi-Nawabs.     

The indiscriminate import of wheat, maize, pulses, sugar, edible oils etc under the influence of big business houses, food industry giants had severe negative impact on agricultural trade, resulting in huge fall in agricultural commodity prices. Agriculture being the state subject, BJP will pass the blame on respective states.  Do not believe them. The Agri imports, Policies, MSP procurement through NAFED are in the hands of centre and states can do very little against the wishes of union Government. The MSP procurement allocation through NAFED is more on political lines   rather than on rationale. For example, during Gujarat election time nearly 30% of groundnut production in Gujarat was procured at minimum support prices as against just 7% from AP.

Siddaramaiah took up Redgram procurement by giving Rs.500/Qtl in addition to MSP and gave critical support to farmers of Karnataka. He was smart enough to understand the defects in much talked and less delivered e NAM and decided to go with their own platform ReM (Rastriya e Markets) and very efficiently able to connect all mandis in Karnataka and farmers could realize better prices. I was told present Karnataka Government is farmer friendly and helping them.  Farmer friends decide and cast your valuable vote to party which is thinking about your welfare.

NAMMA VYAKTI – NAMMA MATA – NAMMA BHAVISYA

BGR as Farmer:

We sold Bananas @Rs10Kg, Tomatoes @ Rs.4/kg, Papaya @ Rs 10/kg, Brinjal @ Rs 6/kg, Onion @ 4/Kg, Ginger @ Rs. 30/Kg at our farm and nearby markets. The harvesting, transport, commission costs are huge and finally its big loss to farmer. More than the loss, the pain farmer goes through in marketing, leaves very unpleasant and bitter memories.

BGR as Customer:  

After a week we bought Bananas @Rs 40Kg, Tomatoes @ Rs.15/kg, Papaya @ Rs 35/kg, Brinjal @ Rs 23/kg, Onion @ 15/Kg, Ginger @ Rs. 150/Kg in a market at Hyderabad, 250 Kms away from our village. I was told, even in Vijayawada which is just 25 Km from our farm, the consumer prices are almost same. What we sold is fresh and what we bought is stale produce.

THIS MAY BE THE CASE WITH PAN INDIA AND IN EVEN IN KARNATAKA.

Supply Chain is hijacked:  

The vegetable street vendors business had come down with presence of Reliance retail, D Mart, Q Mart, S Mart etc and for survival they are increasing retail prices and make good for reduction in volumes, hence the consumer is at loss.

The supply chain is conveniently managed by these big players. The middlemen, commission agent system is being encouraged by these big players and farmer is continued to be exploited. Even the small vendors are the worst sufferers due to big player- commission agent nexus and their control over complete supply chain. 

The much-talked farmer producer companies; contract farming etc mostly remained on paper and being implemented in few cases, just to give publicity to Government. Few big industrial groups like Jain irrigation corner most of the subsidies meant for FPOs (in fact the budgets are managed by them), established huge mango pulp food parks with buy back arrangement from Pepsi etc, but the farmer is still the sufferer at the cost of Jain or Pepsi, by virtue of monopoly situation.

KARNATAKA MATADARA - ADU IGA NIMMA SARADI (Karnataka voters, it’s your turn now)

• Do you want to vote for a party who promised better realizations to farmers through FPOs and delivered big zero in last four years?

• Do you want to vote for Government which is hand in glove with multinationals and big industrial houses and benefiting them at the cost of farmers, small vendors and consumers? 

• Do you want to vote for leader who talks in air & live in air or for a leader who is grounded and respond to our needs at appropriate time? 

Vote for a leader, who is with us in difficult situations and addressing our problems

NAMMA PRAJA- NAMMA RAITA- NAMMA SARKARA (our people, our farmers, our Government)

Not to for a leader, who comes as guest, create aspirations, disappoint & disappear

AVARA PRAJA-AVARA RAITA-AVARA SARKARA (Whose people, whose farmers, whose Government) 

Severe negative impact of Agri produce during present NDA Government:

India food imports had gone up by 42 % in four years, Rs.1, 14,000 Crores in 2014-15 to Rs. 1, 62,000 Crores (estimated figures) in 2017-18. Is it because of our inability to produce? Big No, it’s either due to lack of coordination between food, agriculture and commerce ministries or strong nexus between Government and trade bodies, to make fortunes, both in imports and exports.

Sugar:

During 017-18, Indian sugar production is estimated as 31 million MT as against 24 MMT consumption, hence there is estimated surplus of 7 MMT. If we consider opening stock of 4 MMT, next sugar year will open with 11 MMT and based on plantation figures next year production will be 33 MMT. This situation brought down the sugar prices to lowest of Rs.2450/Qtl and cane dues mounted to alarming levels.

If GOI has vision for cane industry, they must liquidate stocks by exporting sugar immediately by compensating industry with differential price support, increase ethanol blending from present 5 % to 15% and encourage sugar industry from converting part cane directly into ethanol like it is being done in Brazil.  

Looking at our domestic supply and demand critically, India does not need sugar imports at all. Still we imported 1.54 MMT in 14-15, 1.94 MMT in 15-16, 2.15 MMT in 16-17 & 2.40 MMT in 17-18 (provisional) and put a nail on Indian cane growers’ heads. If WTO is the constraint, still it can be handled with unattractive import duties, provided the intentions are good.

UP, Maharashtra and Karnataka farmers are the worst sufferers in sugar sector, due to these inconsistent policies of present Government.   

Wheat:

Despite good production years, still wheat imports were 5.75 MMT in 16-17 and 2.07 MMT in 17-18 (provisional) as against nil imports in 14-15 & 0.51 MMT in 15-16. This unnecessary import lead to a situation of steep fall in wheat prices and the impact is still being continued. This sentiment extended to other cereal crops including paddy.

Pluses:

During 15-16, the pulses rates shot up in India and farmers made some cash surplus, but it is short lived. The vested interest groups came into picture immediately and imports increased by 50 %. Expecting better returns, farmers increased acreage under pulses production. With excessive imports and increased domestic production the rates of black gram, red gram, green gram, Bengal gram crashed by 70-80% and they touched rock bottom in their pricing history. The impact is so severe, even after two years it’s continuing.

PM made this pulses upsurge as a big political propaganda, went to Africa, Burma, Canada, signed long term pulses import agreements with those centuries and broke the back of our own bread growers – FARMERS.    

 

Karnataka farmers are again the worst sufferers, other than AP, Telangana, MP, Rajasthan, Maharashtra due to this trade-politics nexus created situation.

Other Crops:

Similar games are played in import of other crops particularly in Maize, fresh fruits and our farmers interests are being buried permanently.

IT IS CLEAR TRADE OFF OF OUR FARMERS INTERESTS TO HELP SELECTIVE FEW TRADE HOUSES AND INDUSTRY.

ಈಗ ಯಾರು ವಿರೋಧಿ ರೈತರು ಎಂದು ನಿಮಗೆ ತಿಳಿದಿದೆ. ಯೋಚಿಸಿ, ನಿರ್ಧರಿಸಿ ಮತ ಚಲಾಯಿಸಿ

 (Now You know who is anti farmers. Think, decide and vote)

TDP, the pre poll alliance partner and partner in Government ill-treated:

TDP Government in residual Andhra Pradesh was NDA partner and waited with patience with lot of hopes on BJP about fulfilling the commitments made in parliament on special status and assurances given in state reorganization bill. After the last budget, TDP understood the hidden agenda of BJP and disassociated completely from BJP and came out of NDA. Both TDP, YSRCP decided to expose failures of BJP related to AP in parliament and moved ahead by moving the no confidence motion against the Government.  The minimum required MPs support for motion came through unconditional support from Congress and host of other non-NDA partners.

BJP decided to follow most undemocratic practice of not allowing the motion to see day light in the house. They went to the extent of using AIADMK, most vulnerable party after demise of Purachi Talaivi Jailalitha as a shield and avoided no confidence motion by not allowed for 23 days and sessions ended without conducting any business.

By convincing AIADMK with assurance of debate on Kaveri water issue, NDA could have easily allowed the motion for discussion, clear the doubts of AP on reorganization bill and happily conducted the business. Despite having comfortable majority BJP feared to face no confidence motion, as they are on wrong side when it comes to AP issues.

Even the senior MPs from BJP could not prevail and in the history of parliamentary democracy the March, 2018 sessions remain as black spot. Ignoring the party seniors, no care attitude for opposition, no respect for cooperative federalism, exploiting vulnerable parties is the fabric of present NDA. It clearly exhibits their arrogance particularly after winning election after election, the kick has gone into their heads and forgetting the ground realities of this nation.

Now the mission is to weaken the states particularly the opposition ruled ones, exploit regional parties by creating fears using the system and then make the states vulnerable and make them to dance to the tunes of centre. This is very dangerous situation and states should resist and ensure that friendly, spirited centre-state relations shall prevail with true spirit of democratic federalism. 

  

Farmers’ issues to functioning of Parliament – This Government failed in all fronts. Today the issue is with AP, tomorrow it can be Karnataka or any other state. If we do not resist and show them the place, this arrogance will grow leafs and bounds, may reach dangerous levels.

The bi election results in UP, MP, Bihar, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, TN are indications that our voters are very smart and they know how to ground the flying governments.

THESE KARNATAKA ELECTIONS ARE LIKE QUARTER FINALS, FOLLOWED BY SEMIFINALS IN DECEMBER AND GRAND FINALS IN APRIL, 2019.

THINK CAREFULLY AND VOTE FOR A LEADER WHO CARES FOR THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF KARNATAKA AND GIVES YOU CONFIDENCE ABOUT FUTURE.

TEACH LESSONS TO LEADERS WHO GO BACK ON THEIR PROMISES. TODAY YOUR BROTHER AP IS BEING CHEATED. SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH AP AND ENSURE ESTABLISHING STRONG ALLIANCE TO FIGHT FOR GENUINE RIGHTS OF THE STATE.

ವೋಟ್ ತುಂಬಾ ಶಕ್ತಿಯುತ ವೆಪನ್, ಅದನ್ನು ಬಳಸಿ 

(VOTE IS VERY POWERFUL WEAPON, USE IT PROPERLY)

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