Shobha Karandlaje accuses Karnataka government of vindictive politics against BJP workers
Writes to Union Home Minister complaining about M B Patil and Karnataka Police
Udupi: Udupi-Chikmagalur MP and Senior BJP leader Shobha Karandlaje on Monday submitted a complaint to the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh against the Karnataka Government and Karnataka Home Minister M B Patil for their ‘vindictive action’ targeting BJP workers in the state.
In the two page complaint, a copy of which she shared on her official twitter handle, Shobha stated that the coalition government in Karnataka ‘is indulging inwitch hunt against BJP sympathisers soon after Lok Sabha polls’.
Her complaint comes in the wake of arrests of two persons Mahesh Vikram Hegde and Hemanth Kumar, both of whom Karandlaje claims to be BJP sympathisers for allegedly forging a letter of Home Minister M B Patil and spreading it ahead of the second phase of LS Election in the state.
The alleged forged letter was addressed to Sonia Gandhi wherein Patil had explained her the strategy to divide Lingayat votes by labelling it under a separate religious tag. The letter was published in Kannada leading daily Vijayawani days before 2nd phase of LS polls, Shobha added in her complaint.
“M. B Patil who went livid over the leakage of the letter to media and claimed the letter is a forged one and claimed he had never written any letter to Smt. Sonia Gandhi. Police who were under pressure to act on the Home Minister’s complaint, arrested Mahesh Vikram Hegde, Postcard Site owner” Shobha wrote in her complaint.
She also stated about the arrest of Journalist Hemanth Kumar, who was arrested in the case for forging and forwarding the letter. Shobha then mentioned arrests of several BJP supporters and activists to make her point.
The Udupi-Chikmagalur MP then added that a delegation of senior BJP leaders met Karnataka DGP Neelamani Raju, who she alleged was working under the directives of Home Minister. “Neelamani Raju struggled to give convincing reply to the BJP delegation and it was evident that police is acting under directives of Home Minister” Shobha wrote.
“BJP delegation met senior CID officials who are investigating the alleged fake letter case. They failed to provide convincing reply to our charge that police is targeting BJP workers and its sympathisers under orders from Home Minister” she further wrote in the complaint.
Shobha also mentioned several instances when the Congress leaders used foul language against the Prime Minister including the speech of Belur Gopalkrishna alleging that he openly instigated people to shoot down the prime minister. She added that complaints were filed on all the occasions but the police have failed to act against the Congress leaders.
“The police instead of finding the real culprit of the alleged fake letter written by M B Patil or to find out the authenticity of the letter they are going after innocent journalist Hemath Kumar who has no role in to or involved in any conspiracy. He is being falsely framed in the case by the police to please the minister” Shobha stated while requesting intervention of Union Home Minister in the matter to direct Karnataka DGP to stop “vindictive reprisal against BJP workers” and according to constitution of the country.
Submitted my complaint to Hon. HM Sri @rajnathsingh ji regarding the gross misuse of Police machinery in state by the ruling Party.
— Chowkidar Shobha Karandlaje (@ShobhaBJP) April 29, 2019
At the behest of HM, Karnataka Police is targeting BJP supporters.
Vendetta Politics at it's peak, real emergency under Co-Ja Govt in Karnataka! pic.twitter.com/eb3UYgDmSL
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Karnataka deputy CM seeks Centre's nod for Bengaluru Metro Phase 3A, other urban projects
New Delhi (PTI): Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Tuesday met Union ministers Manohar Lal and C R Patil and sought approval for pending proposals, including Phase 3A of the Bengaluru Metro Rail Project.
In his meeting with Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Manohar Lal, Shivakumar said the state government is currently undertaking several critical urban development initiatives in Bengaluru.
However, certain important proposals submitted by the state government are pending approval, he said in his representation.
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Shivakumar said that approval for the revised completion cost -- from Rs 26,405.14 crore to Rs 40,425.02 crore -- for Phase 2 of the Bengaluru Metro Rail Project (BMRCL) is pending.
Other pending proposals include Phase 3A of BMRCL, the Regional Rapid Transit System for the Bengaluru region, and treatment and disposal of legacy leachate at Mittaganahalli.
The proposal for Phase 3A of BMRCL -- consisting of 36.59 kilometres from Sarjapura to Hebbal with 28 stations at an estimated cost of Rs 28,405 crore -- was submitted to the Central government in January this year but it is still pending, he added.
In a separate meeting with Jal Shakti Minister C R Patil, the deputy chief minister discussed pending state water issues.
