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HUBBALLI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi sounded BJP’s Lok Sabha poll bugle in Karnataka on Sunday by taking a swipe at HD Kumaraswamy , calling him a “punching bag” heading a “majboor” (helpless) government that was at the mercy of alliance partner Congress . “Everyone is trying to protect their seats, and Kumaraswamy is receiving threats on a daily basis. “It costs Rs 7.5 lakh crore for the Union government in 10 years to pay Rs 6,000 per year for 12 crore farmers of the nation. They lie and in reality, the loans of only 25-30 out of 100 farmers are waived. So much so that he even cried in public about his helplessness.”The Dharwad constituency in North Karnataka is a BJP bastion where the party has been winning since 1996..