{"id":339682,"date":"2022-09-24T01:02:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T06:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=339682"},"modified":"2022-09-24T04:04:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:34:32","slug":"congress-intensifies-its-paycm-campaign-against-bjp-govt-in-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-intensifies-its-paycm-campaign-against-bjp-govt-in-karnataka\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress intensifies its \u2018PayCM\u2019 campaign against BJP govt in Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bengaluru:–Karnataka Congress Leaders intensified its \u2018PayCM\u2019 campaign against Karnataka BJP government\u00a0 and its Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Congress functionaries \u00a0including opposition leader s Siddaramaiah and BK Hariprasad and state president D K Shivakumar and AICC general Secretary Randeep singh Surjewala along with Legislators and workers posted the posters on compound walls at racecourse road and other places in bengaluru. However,\u00a0 police quickly ripped off posters and took some of functionaries and workers into preventive custody and later let off after some hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Poster contains CM Basavaraj Bommai face along with QR code by the word \u2018PayCM\u2019 written on them\u00a0 -a campaign launched by the congress party against the BJP government in Karnataka.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The PayCM\u00a0 QR code bearing the photograph of the chief minister gets directed to website-\u201840% Sarkara\u2019-accusing the bommai-led bjp government was charging 40 percent commission on public works .The website was lunched by Congress few days ago. Posters were also seen on several Vehicles, especially autorickshaws\u00a0 but thease did not have the image of the CM Bommai or the \u2018PayCM\u2019 caption although it had the QR code along with slogans like \u2018raise voice against corruption\u2019 along with the phone number to record complaint against the government.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Responding to the allegation CM Bommai lashed at the congress party, calling the entire campaign stunt a \u201cpolitically motivated evil design\u201d\u00a0 refuting the currption allegations by congress leaders bommai said that none of their claims are true.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, Opposition leaders Siddaramiah told reporters that the campaign will continue and \u00a0party workers at district level pasting posters \u00a0to intensify the campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Congress in its social media\u00a0 ran a \u00a0\u2018PayCM\u2019\u00a0 campaign. Highlighting various alleged irregularities under the present Bommai dispensation , Like recent PSI\u00a0 recruitment scam.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bengaluru:–Karnataka Congress Leaders intensified its \u2018PayCM\u2019 campaign against Karnataka BJP government\u00a0 and its Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai. Congress functionaries \u00a0including opposition leader s Siddaramaiah and BK Hariprasad and state president D K Shivakumar and AICC general Secretary Randeep singh Surjewala along with Legislators and workers posted the posters on compound walls at racecourse road and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":339681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801,2014],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339683,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339682\/revisions\/339683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/339681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}