"BJP tsunami" in Karnataka, asserts Amit Shah

BJP President Amit Shah today asserted there was a "tsunami" in favour of his party which will not only defeat the ruling Congress but also 'uproot' it in the coming assembly polls in Karnataka.

He also lashed out at the Siddaramaiah government on multiple fronts, saying it had distanced itself from the people.

"After Gujarat elections, this is my Karnataka trip. Extraordinary enthusiasm is witnessed here. Earlier I was saying it was a BJP wave. Now I say it's a BJP tsunami" Shah said.

He was addressing a public rally here in the home district of state unit BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa, who is being projected as the party's chief ministerial face in the elections to be held in the next couple of months.

Shah, who began a two-day tour of the central Karnataka region, said in five years the Siddaramaiah government had "distanced itself from people and development."
He, however, believed that the people of the state would not be enticed by Siddaramaiah's "divide-and-rule politics."