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Randeep Singh Surjewala, AICC wide caput in-charge of Karnataka, connected Saturday (April 4) condemned Pratap Simha, BJP person and erstwhile MP, implicit the latter’s “vile remark” against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah successful Bagalkot, saying it erstwhile again exposes the BJP’s “despicable politics".
Mr. Simha had allegedly made immoderate intemperate and communal remarks aimed astatine the Chief Minister successful the people of the bypoll campaign.
Stating that Mr. Simha’s outburst against the Chief Minister stemmed from desperation, Mr. Surjewala alleged that the BJP was “deliberately utilizing a erstwhile MP to insult the Chief Minister and nonstop a connection to backward classes, Scheduled Castes (SCs), and minorities that they were inferior and subjugated”. Such conduct, helium said, reflects a “complete bankruptcy of ideas, ethics, and leadership” wrong the party.
In a station connected X, Mr. Surjewala said, “This is the aforesaid Pratap Simha who, successful the past, repeatedly referred to the elected Karnataka authorities arsenic a ‘Taliban government’ astatine the behest of the BJP enactment astatine the Centre.”
Accusing BJP leaders of being habitual offenders successful spreading “poisonous” discourse, helium said the party’s vexation implicit the Davangere South and Bagalkot Assembly bypolls stems from nationalist rejection and the imaginable of imminent decision connected April 9.
Mr. Surjewala besides demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and State BJP leaders contented a nationalist apology to Kannadigas — peculiarly Other Backward Classes, SCs, and minorities — for the “disparaging and intolerable” remarks made by Mr. Simha against Mr. Siddaramaiah. He further called for the registration of an FIR against Mr. Simha and strict enactment to beryllium taken against him.
Meanwhile, contempt the BJP enactment expelling its MLA, Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, for six years, helium has continued campaigning for the enactment successful Bagalkot, Mr. Surjewala said.
