Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal’s proposal to ban any MP and MLA who gets elected on Party X’s symbol and later defects to Party Y for money or under pressure should be welcomed. He calls for 10 years ban. Point 5 of CJP’s first demand charter released by @abhijeet_dipke sought the same thing, but much stricter—a ban from holding ANY public office and contesting elections for 20 years. Breaking political parties, bribing MPs with 50-100 crores, toppling governments is a fraud committed on the country. Such fraud should never happen. The Anti-Defection law is outdated. The ruling party has ensured its misuse in its lust for eternal power. The young will change this! 🇮🇳🪳✊🏻

Maybe the mistake is judging @BJP4Karnataka merely through the lens of a vocal minority on social media. Case in point: Mysuru Chalo. Jan Akrosha. Lalbagh. Ballari Chalo. Look at the pattern. BJP KA has consistently taken the fight to the ground, issue by issue, constituency by constituency. Ballari Chalo was the clearest example. We protested in the Assembly over B. Nagendra’s reinduction. He resigned. We did not stop. BYV kept the padayatra going, and it grew into a larger campaign around drought, farmers, jobs, recruitment, welfare and unemployment. At Sindhanur, BYV challenged the government’s drought assessment and demanded that more taluks be included. D.K. Shivakumar responded reluctantly, eventually accepting the demand. We also demanded a special Assembly session on drought, and the pressure forced the government to announce one. But the real strength of Ballari Chalo was what happened between the speeches. At Marali, BYV sat with shepherd families and listened. In Kampli, he spent time with students talking about jobs and education. In Karatagi, he stopped to felicitate retired teachers. Along the Tungabhadra, he met farmers whose lives depend on the river. For those of us who have worked with @BYVijayendra Anna over the last few years, this ground connect is not new. It is his strength. BJP KA is showing what a sustained Opposition campaign can look like: mobilising karyakartas, listening to people, staying with issues and making the government respond. The headlines might move on. BJP KA IS ON THE GROUND, ALONGSIDE ITS PEOPLE.

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