BJP demands fresh election in Karnataka

   Chennai: BJP Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday demanded fresh polls in Karnataka. "BJP feels that there is no way other than going for election in Karnataka.The coalition experiment in the state has failed.There is open fighting going on between JD(S) and Congress ," said Naidu Coming down heavily on the UPA government at the Centre for its decisions to stop the subsidy on food grains supplied through the public distribution system and to reduce the EPF interest rate, he said both were anti-people policies.

   "BJP demands to restore the full quota of 35 kilogram of food grains per family and withdrawal of hike of the charges of PDS rice and wheat," said Naidu. The full quota of 35 kg of food grain per family under PDS which was introduced during the NDA regime was reduced to 10 kg by the UPA government in Centre. Naidu also criticised the decision of the central government to reduce the Employees Provident Fund interest rate to 8.5 percent He also said , the national council meeting of BJP will be held on January 20 to discuss the anti-people policies of congress. The BJP had no plans of alliance with any regional party in Tamilnadu for the forthcoming elections, he added.

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