Film star free to choose…: Congress on Kichcha Sudeep as BJP star campaigner

Congress leader Randeep Surjewala reiterated that it is the people who will decide the fate of Karnataka and not film stars.

Congress leader Randeep Surjewala (File/PTI)

By India Today News Desk: A film star is free to choose whom to support, said Congress MP Randeep Singh Surjewala hours after the BJP announced Kichcha Sudeep as its star campaigner for the Karnataka Assembly election. Surjewala reiterated that it is the people who will decide the fate of Karnataka and not film stars.

“A film star is free to choose whom to support, sometimes by IT-ED or otherwise. Bankruptcy of BJP in Karnataka is clear. As no one turns up to listen to CM Bommai and BJP leaders, they now rely upon film stars to draw crowd. People, not film stars, will decide fate of Karnataka,” Surjewala tweeted.

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The Kannada actor announced that he will campaign for the BJP in the southern state but won’t contest election. He also briefed the media along with Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and said that he would have supported Bommai irrespective of the party he was in.

Karnataka will go to the polls on May 10 and votes will be counted on May 13.

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