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Members of the Kalaburagi territory portion of BJP staged a protestation connected December 25 opposing the Hate Speech and Hate Crimes Bill, 2025, claiming that the authorities would curtail state of look and beryllium misused to people governmental opponents and dissenting voices.
BJP leaders including erstwhile MP Umesh Jadhav, legislators Basavaraj Mattimod and Avinash Jadhav, erstwhile MLA Rajkumar Patil Telkur, participated successful the protestation extracurricular the Deputy Commissioners’ bureau successful Kalaburagi. Party workers raised slogans condemning the Congress-led authorities of Karnataka and demanded the contiguous withdrawal of the projected legislation.
Dr Jadhav said the projected Bill posed a superior menace to antiauthoritarian values and law rights. He alleged that the projected instrumentality was vague, politically motivated and aimed astatine silencing voices that question the ruling government. He urged the authorities of Karnataka to retreat the Bill, and clasp wider consultations with each stakeholders earlier introducing specified legislation.
The protesters said the BJP is not against curbing hatred code oregon maintaining communal harmony, but the Bill could beryllium misused to harass societal activists and absorption leaders nether the pretext of maintaining nationalist order.
Legislators said the projected authorities lacked clarity and safeguards, and could undermine antiauthoritarian debate. They added that the BJP would proceed its protestation crossed the territory to make nationalist consciousness astir the implications of the Bill.
They submitted a memorandum to the territory medication addressed to the Governor seeking reconsideration of the Bill.
