They are joining hands with other parties to defeat BJP in upcoming assembly election.
Karnataka Rajya Raita Sangha (KRRS) says it hopes to form a political base and contest elections in the coming years from all districts, in the state through its political unit, Sarvodaya Karnataka Party (SKP). In the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections the SKP is contesting from nine places.
The constituencies are Melukote, Mandya,Chamrajnagara, Virajpete, Aluru, Belaghatti, Chitradurga, Kadur and Savadatti. Hoskote Basvaraj, member of KRRS said, “We want to form a base and maybe in the 2028 elections even we can contest all over the state and focus on farmers, Dalits and issues of other communities that are ignored between the religion politics among parties.”
KRRS is a farmers union with its presence in more than 30 districts in Karnataka and over one crore members, mainly from the farming community.
Further the state president Badagalapura Nagendra said they are forming a team of 100 youths from each district who can further raise issues that concern the farming community and form a strong base in these places.
He also said, “We are going to defeat the BJP-RSS alliance in the state elections by supporting other parties who have agreed to implement the demands of the farmers.”
Nagendra said the Congress and Janta Dal (Secular) D have agreed to implement the demands of the farmers but the BJP has not yet met the union to listen to its demands.
BJP representative Ashok Gowda said, “KRRS only pretends to be a neutral organisation so why should we support an organisation affiliated with a political party. It is all partnered with the Congress and we do not care about them.”
The Congress party has left its Melukote constituency for Darshan Puttannaiah of the SKP.
The KRRS, a farmers union released its list of demands for the farmer community from the major party contesting in the Karnataka election 2023. The demands include providing income security to the farmers, amendments to the land acquisition laws, policies that attract youth to agriculture, eliminating middle-men in order to provide direct benefits to farmers and many more.
