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Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda has supported the ‘Swachch Bharat Abhiyan,’ saying such a programme is needed for the country.
Addressing presspersons in Mangalore on Wednesday, Gowda said he welcomed the ‘Swachch Bharat Abhiyan’, and participated in one such programme in Hassan recently. He said many villages and towns in the country lacked drainage and solid waste management facilities.
However, he said: “That does not mean I welcome everything he (Modi) does.” His party would play the role of a constructive opposition in Parliament, he said.
Gowda said he had a 45-minute meeting with Modi after he assumed charge as Prime Minister. He has now sought an appointment with the Prime Minister to discuss the problems faced by farmers in the State.
Stressing the need for a strong regional party in Karnataka, he said he would tour all the 224 assembly constituencies in the State in the next three-and-half years to strengthen the party.
He will meet those who worked for the party for long and who are inactive now, and make efforts to bring them back into active politics.
To a query on the appointment of the president of Karnataka unit of Janata Dal (Secular), Gowda said a decision on this would be taken in two weeks.
He said the law and order situation is not good in Karnataka. An analysis of the murders during the daytime shows that the number has increased in the past one-and-a-half years, he said.
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