After alleging Bluru youth was killed for not speaking Urdu, Karnataka Home Minister apologise
Bengaluru: Concerning the murder of a youngster named Chandru which had occurred at Goripalya in Bengaluru, the statement issued by Home Minister Araga Jnanendra has invited fresh controversy in the state. The Minister had issued a statement claiming that the murder had occurred because the victim could not speak Urdu and later sought an apology for his statement.
Reportedly, in the aftermath of a bike accident, a fight has broken out between both parties which had ended in the murder of one youth. However, the Minister of Home Affairs had made a provocative statement at the BJP office in Bengaluru saying that the deceased Dalit victim named Chandru had been murdered because he could not speak Urdu. Following his statement, C.T Ravi had also issued a flagrant statement that “if the murder has occurred because of Kannada, then all of them must be chased to Pakistan”, he had said.
However, the police have denied the claims made by the BJP leaders and revealed that the murder had occurred following a verbal altercation between both parties after a bike accident. Concerning the incident, the police have arrested Shahid Pasha (21), Shahid Goli (22), and another minor, it is learned.
Now, the Minister of Home Affairs has withdrawn his statement and said, “Based on the information I received first, without making any unbiased investigation, I have said that statement is haste which is my mistake. I had immediately stated the information that was revealed to me in front of the media. Now I have received detailed information”, he clarified.
“In the fight that broke out after the bike accident, Chandru was stabbed. While being taken to the hospital, he passed away due to excessive bleeding. The statement which I issued earlier was wrong”, Minister Araga Jnanendra said.
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We will move court again to resist voter deletions: Mamata
Kolkata (PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit out at the BJP and the Election Commission over voter deletions during the SIR exercise and said her party will move a court again to resist the removal of electors from the rolls.
Her comments came after nearly 91 lakh voters' names were deleted from the electoral rolls following the completion of the Special Intensive Revision in the state.
“You will not be able to defeat the TMC by deleting names. We will move a court again to resist the exclusion of names," Banerjee said while attacking her principal challenger BJP over the roll revision exercise.
Banerjee had in February argued in the Supreme Court as she sought an intervention in the SIR process.
The EC figures, which pushed the total deletion to over 90.83 lakh names from the original voter base of 7.66 crore in October 2025, showed that the proportion of removal of electors now remains at over 11.85 per cent.
Criticising the poll panel over the SIR process, she also said, "We will fight legally to get the names included on the list as per the Constitution. If people cannot cast their votes, what is the need to frame the tribunal? And then you are saying that the list has been frozen. What is this? We will challenge it and try to understand it."
Addressing a poll rally at Arambagh in Hooghly district, the TMC supremo accused the saffron party of trying to manipulate the electoral rolls and offering money to woo voters.
Banerjee also charged the Election Commission with intimidating people over the phone.
“It (EC) is working at the behest of the BJP. It is calling people over the telephone to threaten and intimidate them,” she claimed.
Later, while speaking at a rally in Balagarh in the same district, Banerjee warned that voting for the BJP would effectively mean "giving up fish, meat, and speaking in Bengali".
“People are not allowed to eat eggs, fish, or meat in the BJP-ruled states like Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra. The same will happen here if the BJP comes to power," Banerjee claimed.
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