Congress moves EC against BJP video targeting Muslims
The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on Sunday sought the Election Commission to initiate action against BJP’s national president J.P. Nadda and other senior leaders for allegedly violating the model code of conduct by posting a video on social media ‘intimidating’ members of SC and ST community not to vote for a particular candidate.
In a complaint to the Karnataka Chief Electoral O¨cer, the State Congress unit mentioned a video uploaded on the social media platform, X, by the o¨cial account of the Karnataka unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party — @bjp4karnataka — which is operated by Amit Malviya, the head of the party’s IT cell, allegedly on the instructions of Mr. Nadda and B.Y. Vijayendra, BJP State president and social media in-charge of the State BJP, on May 4.
“The said video posted on social media featured animated characters of Rahul Gandhi and Siddaramaiah. In the clip, SCs, STs, and the OBCs are portrayed as “eggs” in a nest and it also suggested Rahul Gandhi planting a big egg labelled as the Muslim community. It is projected as though funds are being fed to the chick depicting the Muslim community, which then kicks out the SCs, STs, and OBC communities,” the letter stated.
It said nowhere in the Congress manifesto has it been mentioned that allocations of funds to SCs, STs and OBCs will be cut and that they will be diverted to the Muslim community.
‘Promoting enmity’
“The act of the accused person is to wantonly provoke rioting and promote enmity between di§erent religions and is prejudicial to maintenance of harmony apart from intimidating members of the SC/ST community not to vote for a particular candidate and causing enmity against members of the SC/ST community,” it added.