Days after forming the federal authorities throughout the southern state, the Karnataka Congress has registered an FIR in the direction of former minister and BJP MLA CN Ashwath Narayan for his alleged assertion to “finish off” Siddaramaiah like “Uri Gowda and Nanje Gowda finished off Tipu Sultan”.
A delegation of Congress leaders led by Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) spokesperson M Lakshmana and Mysuru District Congress Committee President B J Vijaykumar on Wedneday submitted a up to date criticism at Devaraja police station in Mysuru. The FIR has been registered under Sections 506 and 153 of the IPC.
Earlier in February this 12 months a criticism was filed by KPCC spokesperson on the Malleshwaram police station in the direction of Ashwath Narayan nonetheless no movement was taken.
While addressing a public event this February, the Karnataka minister had exhorted people to “finish off” Siddaramaiah the way in which by which the two Vokkaliga chieftains — Uri Gowda and Nanje Gowda — had killed Seventeenth-century Mysuru ruler Tipu Sultan. Congress has maintained that the duo are fictional characters.
Subsequently, Ashwath Narayan in a sequence of tweets talked about that he his remarks have been casual allusions and by no means malicious.
“Let me make my stand clear. The words used to compare Tipu Sultan and Siddaramaiah in Mandya are casual allusions and not malicious words. But my words are being misconstrued. It wasn’t meant to hurt anyone,” he tweeted.
“Debate is an integral part of politics & essential for a healthy democracy. It is in this spirit that my words should be interpreted. It may be @siddaramaiah ‘s culture to be calling the Prime Minister a “mass murderer” and assailing the Chief Minister,” be taught his tweet.
Ashwath Narayan extra added that he had solely talked about that Congress must be defeated throughout the elections.
“The people of the State are well aware of Siddaramaiah’s language proficiency. I was merely alluding to the fact that Congress should be defeated in this election. And, after all, our people of Mandya do not possess the brutal mentality of Tipu,” he had tweeted.
To this Siddaramaiah had then acknowledged that love and friendship cannot be anticipated from leaders of a celebration, which “worships the murderer of Mahatma Gandhi”.
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