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Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar claimed that the convulsive clash betwixt Congress and BJP workers successful Ballari connected January 1, which resulted successful the decease of a Congress activist, was triggered by the enactment of MLA for Gangavati Gali Janardhan Reddy and his supporters tearing down banners related to the unveiling of a Maharshi Valmiki statue.
Addressing the media successful Ballari aft gathering the household of slain Congress activistic Rajashekhar Reddy, the Deputy Chief Minister said that instrumentality would instrumentality its ain people and that nary 1 would beryllium shielded from accountability. He was accompanied by territory In-charge Minister B.Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan, Ballari MLA Nara Bharath Reddy, and different Congress leaders.
“I americium neither defending nor targeting anyone,” the Deputy Chief Minister said, adding that the constabulary had taken timely and due enactment to power the situation.
Justifying the installation of banners adjacent Mr. Janardhana Reddy’s residence, Mr. Shivakumar said putting up banners successful nationalist places up of large nationalist events was a communal and accepted practice. He said if determination were objections, the substance could person been resolved done civic authorities oregon the police.
“If determination was immoderate objection to the banners featuring Maharshi Valmiki, they could person approached the Corporation Commissioner oregon the police. Instead, the banners were torn down, and that enactment provoked the violence,” helium said.
Referring to a fact-finding study prepared by the Congress, helium said a expansive programme had been planned for the unveiling of the Maharshi Valmiki statue, with wide enactment from the community.
“Unable to tolerate the standard of nationalist enactment and the prominence of the programme, the banners bearing Maharshi Valmiki’s representation were torn down,” helium said.
He dismissed Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy’s assertion that the post-mortem of the deceased activistic was conducted doubly arsenic “completely false.”
On allegations by Mr. Janardhana Reddy that gunmen linked to Ballari MLA Bharath Reddy had fired astatine him, the Deputy Chief Minister questioned wherefore specified claims were not raised instantly aft the incidental demanding a mahazar past itself.
