Main the attak was former chief minister Basavaraj Bommai, who accused the Congress occasion of earlier taking the assist of forces that have been trying to destabilise the nation and now repaying the favour by dropping circumstances.
“We took strict motion, and these riots may very well be managed. There was involvement of worldwide forces behind these incidents,” Bommai instructed reporters. “As a result of they (Congress) have taken assist of all these parts within the election, they now need to repay them with such favours.”
The statements come days after Congress legislator Tanveer Sait wrote to Karnataka residence minister G. Parameshwara, searching for his intervention to assessment circumstances during which a number of “innocents and college students” have been falsely incarcerated.
In his letter, Sait has referred to the riots in Bengaluru’s DJ Halli and KJ Halli on August 11 2020, the Shivamogga communal unrest in February 2022, and the Hubballi unrest in April final yr.
“There could also be MLAs or different organisations who preserve giving letters and requests to take again circumstances, stating that there isn’t a reality within the allegations. We have now some procedures, whether or not it’s the CM, residence minister…there’s a cupboard sub-committee underneath the house minister and all details of the case, execs and cons are positioned earlier than it. And primarily based on all these details, the sub-committee can take a choice. Simply because the HM or the CM writes a letter, the circumstances can’t be withdrawn…,” Parameshwara instructed reporters.
In the meantime, BJP leaders comparable to Lok Sabha MP Tejasvi Surya declare that every one the above-mentioned riots have been engineered by the now banned Well-liked Entrance of India (PFI) and its political associates just like the Social Democratic Get together of India (SDPI).
Taking cue from PM Narendra Modi’s tirade in opposition to the opposition events which have come collectively to tackle the BJP, Surya gave a spin to the present state of affairs by referring to the latest developments, together with the arrest of 5 suspected terrorists.
In lower than per week after Bengaluru Police arrested 5 suspected terrorists within the metropolis, the State Congress Govt in Karnataka is dropping circumstances in opposition to terrorists accused within the DJ Halli & KJ Halli case the place a police station and a Cong Dalit MLAs home was burnt to the bottom.… pic.twitter.com/VkErTomeeE
— Tejasvi Surya (@Tejasvi_Surya) July 26, 2023
In the meantime, the BJP and the Congress in Karnataka are additionally slugging it out over the proposal to drop circumstances in addition to the Udupi hostel incident during which three women allegedly filmed a fellow pupil contained in the washroom.
On Tuesday, BJP chief N. Ravi Kumar claimed that the trio have been Muslims who recorded a Hindu woman. “They (Muslim women) despatched the video to a number of teams,” he alleged.
Although the district police have stated that the alleged video was not shared with any group, the BJP has insisted on a probe and accused the Siddaramaiah-led Congress authorities of attempting to cowl up the crime. The ladies’s wing of the BJP have threatened to go on a strike Thursday over the matter.