Siddaramaiah govt ‘ anti- Hindu’, says Shah in Karnataka rally
Stop your atrocities, or we will send you to jail, warns BJP chief
Chitradurga ( Karnataka), Jan. 9: Calling the Congress government in Karnataka “anti- Hindu”, BJP chief Amit Shah accused it of perpetrating atrocities on BJP and RSS workers, claiming 20 of them were killed in the state over the last three years.
He alleged that the Siddaramaiah government was pursuing “vote bank” politics as part of which it withdrew cases against SDPI workers despite the organisation being involved in “antinational activities”.
Mr Shah also demanded that the Siddaramaiah dispensation account for ` 3 lakh crore the Modi government gave it for development.
“In the last three years, we lost 20 BJP and RSS workers ( in the state),” he told a rally at Holalkere near here, and claimed the government was not getting the cases probed properly.
“Stop your atrocities on our workers, for once we come to power we will investigate the cases and send you to jail,” he warned.
“This anti- Hindu government is playing vote bank politics. Though it is established that the SDPI is indulging in antinational activities, all the cases against them have been withdrawn,” Mr Shah said.
Social Democratic Party of India ( SDPI) is the political wing of the Popular Front of India ( PFI).
Anti- terror probe agency NIA has claimed several SDPI and PFI activists were involved in terrorrelated cases.
Raising the pitch for the upcoming Assembly polls in the state, the BJP chief said he has come to Karnataka to respond to Mr Siddaramaiah’s charge that the Modi government did not release adequate funds for the state.
Mr Shah is on a two- day visit to Karnataka, where Assembly polls are due early this year.