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Bengaluru January 26: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that the British ruled India for 400 years due to our people’s  conspiracy.

He was speaking after paying his tributes to Rayanna on his death anniversary  programme held at Khode circle today. 

There are still people among us who do not agree to any  change in society, do not agree with equal opportunities, and want to nurture inequality. Such people are very dangerous. The CM gave a call  to be careful about such people.

Patriot and a freedom fighter Sangollirayanna was caught and handed over to the British by our own people’s conspiracy.   We do not respect him because he belongs to the Kuruba community, but because of Rayanna’s patriotism and sacrifice, everyone should remember and respect him. He said that Rayanna should be born in every home.

 We have  recommended to the Union Government to  name Hubli Airport after Rayanna. Kempegowda Development  Authority was established  by us. We also recommended the name Kempegowda for Bangalore International Airport. Institutions are named after great people like Kempegowda, Rayanna, Basavanna, Kuvempu, Kanakadasa, Mahatma Gandhi, Vivekananda- to inspire people   of their  aspirations, he said.

But those who want their aspirations  to be destroyed, there should be no constitution, inequality should continue, and those who want to sit idle  and live on someone else’s  hard work,  are still trying to change our constitution.We need to be extremely conscious  about them, he said. 

Our kings hated each other and this opportunity  was seized by  Ghazji Muhammad and the British, French etc attacked us. 

The country’s opportunities must be disbursed amongst all  class of the society. It is the aspiration of our constitution. Basavanna’s and Kuvempu’s aspiration was the same. He explained that the aspirations of all these people was included in   Rayanna’s struggle too. 

The programme was held in the divine presence of  Nirmalananda Swamiji, the Dharmaguru of Adi Chunchanagiri Maha Sansthan,   Chief Minister’s political secretaries Govindaraju, Naseer Ahmed, former minister H.M. Revanna were present.