Uttara Kannada (Karnataka) [India], Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D Shivakumar on Friday criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for not standing up for the poor and the underprivileged. Speaking at a campaign rally in Mundagode, Shivakumar said, "BJP government is dead. It is not standing with the poor. Lakhs of people died during Covid due to mismanagement and now people are dying because of BJP's corruption in vaccination." Shivakumar said, “BJ said he has released Rs 20 lakh crore for Covid relief, has anyone got Covid relief? Where is that money? They printed Modi's photo on vaccination certificates, but why did they not print his photo on the death certificates of Covid victims? He said, "During Covid, we appealed to Chief Minister Yediyurappa to release an assistance amount of Rs 10,000 for the workers, but he released only half of it. While we were struggling for free tickets to the affected, we Bus fares increased three times during Covid.Hitting out at the BJP for merging Karnataka's banks with other nationalized banks, the Deputy Chief Minister said, "The only achievement of the BJP is to destroy Karnataka's banks like Corporation Bank, Vijaya Bank, Syndicate Bank by merging them with other nationalized banks. Was. He said, "PM Modi had said that farmers' income will double, but nothing happened. He said that he will bring back all the corruption money from abroad, but nothing happened." “BJ has given people price rise and inflation. We tried to ease people's pain through guarantee schemes.Indira Gandhi came up with the scheme 'The tiller is the landlord' and Manmohan Singh gave us the Forest Act to give land to the tribals, the Congress government will very soon issue leases to the tribals. Hitting out at the BJP for allegedly doing communal politics, Deputy C said, "BJP talks about Hindus. Are Siddaramaiah, Deshpande and I not Hindus? It was Bangarappa who started the Aradhana scheme to help small temples. There should be no politics on religion, we are fighting to save the Constitution written by Baba Saheb Ambedkar."