Amit Shah announces BJP will contest alone in 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections

Clearing his party's stance, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday announced that BJP is going to contest alone in Karnataka Assembly Elections 2023. Talks of alliance with JD (S) is only rumour, he added.

"Those associated with JD(S) are spreading rumours that BJP will form an alliance with them. I want to clearly tell Karnataka that BJP will fight elections alone and also form government in the state," Union Home minister Amit Shah said after inaugurating the Central Detective Training Institute of the ITBP in Bengaluru.

Attacking Congress, Shah said, "For Congress, gaining power is a way of



doing corruption but for us, it is to make people's lives better. In the recent elections in 7 states, BJP won in 5 states and Congress was wiped out from 6 states.

Amit Shah also lauded the Indo-Tibet Border Police (ITBP), calling them 'Himaveer' (snow bravehearts) and said no one can encroach even an inch of our land when they are there at the borders. Hailing the ITBP personnel, he said they guard our borders in harsh conditions and that the title of 'Himaveer' for them is bigger than Padma Sri and Padma Vibhushan. Among all the central armed police forces, the ITPB works in the oddest weather conditions, he pointed out.