Showcasing their “success” in the Gram Panchayat polls in Karnataka, the BJP on Wednesday claimed that the people have rejected the Opposition’s politics of “lies and hypocrisy” in the ongoing farmers’ agitation and asserted that voters had put their faith in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “development politics”.

Addressing a press conference here, BJP spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Rajeev Chandrasekhar alleged that opposition parties have been trying to instigate groups of citizens as he referred to farmers’ protest against three farm laws and also the earlier agitation against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

Noting that he is speaking in the context of a string of elections in Karnataka, he said the BJP has been winning them, be it assembly bypolls or MLC elections or the recent rural body polls.

This “overwhelming” mandate in favour of the BJP against some opposition parties’ politics of “lies and hypocrisy” shows people’s trust in the leadership of Modi and Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, he said.

People have backed the measures taken by the central government for the agriculture sector, he claimed.

The BJP leader said the Government is sincere in its talks with farmer unions to end their protests and said commitment to farmers is an “article of faith” for the party.

Over 55.4 per cent gram panchayats in the state are BJP-supported and 53 per cent members are BJP supporters, he claimed.

This result has come against the backdrop of opposition parties’ “falsehoods” to mislead farmers, he said.

Since the BJP came to power at the Centre, the party has won 14 of 17 Assembly bypolls and emerged victorious in all four MLC seat elections, he said.

Over a month, the BJP has cited results in a number of elections across the country to assert that the farm laws enjoy support from a vast majority of farmers.