Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said he will thank former AICC President Rahul Gandhi for visiting the lingayat mutts just for the show-off.

He told reporters here on Monday that a host of BJP national leaders including PM Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Union Minister Smriti Irani will be coming to Karnataka for the campaign as the star campaigners
The CM said he never imagined becoming the CM but the high command decided it. Now also the high command will take a decision. Everything is being watched by the Delhi leaders.

Reacting to KPCC President D.K.Shivakumar’s statement that the BJP was playing with emotions, Bommai said it was the Congress leaders who started the controversy surrounding lingayats. Shivakumar has the habit of saying something and doing another thing. “Let us wait and watch whom the God will bless”.

On BJP MLA Madal Virupakshappa campaigning for his son in Channagiri, the CM said the high command is observing everything and will take a suitable decision.

He said the BJP will garner more votes than the 2018 Assembly elections. The Congress leaders will be thanked for taking former CM Jagadish Shettar and former DyCM Lakshman Savadi into their party. It will be a plus point for the BJP. The voters of Shettar and Savadi are talking against the duo. They enjoyed all the power and then joined the Congress Party. This will not be accepted by the people.
Statement twisted
On claims by Leader of the Opposition in the State Legislative Assembly Jagadish Shettar that his statement on the lingayat CMs has been twisted, the CM said the people are not fools and watching everything.