BJP plans major rally on Dec 26

DAVANAGERE: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is organising a mammoth rally in Bangalore on December 26, the day the Legislative Assembly''s winter session is set to begin, to raise hackles against Congress government.
BJP leader B.S. Yediyurappa told reporters here that the rally supplements the emergency meeting of BJP legislators convened in Bangalore on Tuesday that discussed strategies to be adopted on the floor of the House.
The party is focusing on the Krishna government''s "total administrative failure", he said, seeking to know why has the Assembly been convened now.
"Is it to cover up lapses in its handling of the Nagappa kidnap episode that had a gory end in the hostage''s death? What use the Assembly session is of when everything is over?"
BJP Karnataka unit president Basavaraj Patil Sedam, opposition leader in the Legislative Assembly Jagadish Shettar, frontranking leaders D.H. Shankar Murthy and K.S. Eshwarappa urged S.M. Krishna to relinquish the office of chief minister and dissolve the government immediately following "the total failure of administration".
Referring to the Karnataka government''s failure in nabbing forest brigand Veerappan, Yediyurappa said: "Instead of hunting down Veerappan, these people (read the Congress government) would rather want to join hands with him."