Bengaluru: Condemning the alleged act of SDPI workers totarget pro CAA-NRC leaders, former Karnataka CM and Leader of Opposition in Karnataka Assembly Siddaramaiah called the state government to initiate a unbiased investigation into the matter irrespective of the groups the accused are identified with.

Speaking at the press club in the city, the former CM also questioned the organizational values of RSS adding that the organisation has been involved in various illegal activities.

“No individual should be targeted or attacked let him be from any organisation. Nobody should be attacked or targeted let him be from Congress or BJP” Siddaramaiah said.

Adding that he had no information about the ban state government was mulling to impose on SDPI.

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Kundapur: Two persons died and several students were injured after a college tour bus rammed into a tanker and a goods lorry parked by the roadside near Maravanthe Beach in Trasi on Wednesday afternoon.

The bus was carrying final-year B.Com students of Rambhapuri College from Shivamogga district. According to sources, the group had left for the tour two days ago.

There were around 50 persons in the bus, including 24 male students and 23 female students.

The students had visited Murdeshwar and were travelling towards Udupi on Wednesday when the accident occurred.

Police said the bus driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle, following which the bus first hit a parked gas tanker and then crashed into a goods lorry stationed ahead.

The front portion of the bus was badly mangled in the impact. Preliminary information said the bus cleaner and a cooking assistant travelling with the group died in the accident. Several injured students were shifted to different hospitals in Kundapur for treatment.