Bengaluru, (DHNS): State Congress president G Parameshwara is embarking on a campaign to cover all the 66,000 polling booths in Karnataka in an effort to strengthen the party.

‘Param Nadige Booth Mattada Kadege’ (Parameshwara’s walk towards the booth) will be launched in Hubballi-Dharwad on Sunday.

He will speak to booth-level Congress workers on the “achievements” of the state government and the “failures” of the BJP-led Union government, according to a statement issued by his office.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Congress general secretary in charge of Karnataka K C Venugopal, KPCC working presidents, Dinesh Gundu Rao and S R Patil, KPCC campaign committee chairman D K Shivakumar and other leaders will join the campaign in the first week of September. The party also plans to launch another campaign called ‘Mane Manege Congress’ (Congress in every household) in September, the statement added. It also highlighted Parameshwara’s role in bringing the Congress to power in 2013.

At a press conference at the KPCC office, Parameshwara targeted BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa who has invited Dalits for lunch at his Dollars Colony house on Monday.

“We will see whether he serves hotel food or home-made food,” he said in an obvious reference to an incident a few months ago when Yeddyurappa and other BJP politicians purportedly ate hotel-made food at the house of a Dalit.

“For Yeddyurappa, inviting Dalits for lunch is a big achievement. He didn’t invite them when he was the chief minister,” said Parameshwara, who belongs to the community.