“There is no Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or Modi wave in the country,” Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar has said.
Addressing a press conference at the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee headquarters after taking part in a roadshow from Killippalam to East Fort here on Tuesday for Shashi Tharoor, the United Democratic Front (UDF) candidate for Thiruvananthapuram, Mr. Shivakumar said the BJP had replaced 100 sitting MPs with new faces for the Lok Sabha elections. “If the BJP were strong, would such a situation have risen, including in Karnataka,” he said.
