SURATHKAL: Unleashing an all-out attack on the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government, BJP President Amit Shah today dubbed it as "goonda governance" and the "most corrupt" in the country and said the countdown for its exit has begun.

If there was to be a competition for the most corrupt government, the award for the last five years would go to the one headed by Siddaramaiah, he said.

"People of Karnataka are disillusioned with 3 Ms -- Murder, Mafia Raj, and Corrupt Ministers. People want to move towards good governance from Goonda governance. They want to get rid of goonda governance and want to move towards good governance under (state BJP chief) B S Yeddyurappa," he said.

Shah, who spoke to reporters at Surathkal and addressed a public meeting at Bantwal, said, "Congress party's time has now come to an end. On the day of counting Congress government will not be here, it will be BJP government."

The BJP president launched his tour of the communally sensitive Dakshina Kannada and Uttara Kannada districts in the coastal region in poll-bound Karnataka, where the party has a strong presence and is trying to consolidate it further.

"This government has been the most corrupt government. There is evidence of corruption at every step," Shah said at Surathkal.

Pointing to killings of RSS and BJP activists in the state, Shah said, "I had never seen such ideological and political victimisation in my life."    

He questioned the state government on withdrawal of cases against activists of Islamic outfit Popular Front of India and its political wing Social Democratic Party of India and also on a circular from the Home Department regarding withdrawal of cases against "innocent" minorities.

The circular was later withdrawn by the government.

At the Bantwal rally, Shah accused the Siddaramaiah government of pursuing "appeasement and vote bank politics".

Shah said one after the other more than 20 BJP and RSS activists had been killed in the state.

The BJP has been targeting the Siddaramaiah government consistently over a series of killings of Hindu activists by alleged "Jehadi forces," and accused it of adopting a "soft approach" towards them as part of the Congress' "vote bank"and "minorities appeasement" politics.

He also referred to the recent incident involving Mohammed Nalapad Haris, son of a Congress MLA and himself a party leader, who triggered outrage by assaulting a man in a pub-cum-restaurant.

Shah said the filing of an FIR was delayed because the accused was from a minority community.