EASE OF DOING MURDERS, NOT BUSINESS IN K’TAKA: MODI

In a stinging attack on the Siddaramaiah government , Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused it of setting new records in corruption and asserted that the countdown for its exit from Karnataka has begun.

“The Congress government is at the exit gate,” Modi told a huge public rally here, as he took on the Siddaramaiah rule dubbing it a “10 per cent commission government.”

Chiding the government on the law and order front, he said, “instead of the rule of law, the criminals are ruling the roost.”

The rally at the sprawling Palace Grounds marked the culmination of the state BJP’s 85-day “Parivarthana Yatra” that crisscrossed all 224 assembly constituencies and virtually sounded the bugle for the coming Assembly polls in the state, due early this year.

The BJP has set a 150-plus seats mission.

Asserting that there was a “saffron wave” in the state, Modi said the people of Karnataka had decided to make the state Congress free and to get rid of “Congress culture”.

“Congress government is a 10 per cent government, where no work happens without paying a commission of 10 per cent. It is a matter of shame if this becomes the identity of a government,” he said.

Charging the state with setting new records in corruption, Modi said, “Congress free gov-

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