CM Kumaraswamy asks Amit Shah to tell his supporters to behave in public
Bengaluru, Mar 19: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy Tuesday advised BJP president Amit Shah to instruct his party supporters to behave in public and asked if they have any decency.
Kumaraswamy was reacting to Shah's tweet flaying police action against those who allegedly raised pro-Modi slogans outside the venue of a function here on Monday at which Congress chief Rahul Gandhi was addressing entrepreneurs.
"I advise Amit Shah to instruct his supporters to behave properly in public," Kumaraswamy told reporters here.
"While some other party's programme is going on..do they have any decency?...first they have to learn about decency to behave in the public.
I advise Amit Shah to instruct his BJP supporters not to disturb other party's programmes," he added.
"Hugs for 'Tukde Tukde' gang and arrest of peaceful youth raising pro-Modi slogans? Where are the champions of 'Free Speech'? Yuvraj of Congress must know- time follows the course taken by youngsters.
Stop intimidating the youth of India, which has rejected your brand of politics," Shah had tweeted replying to state BJP's tweet on Monday's incident.
"Democracy in Danger, Police arrests few techies for raising pro Modi slogans at Manyata tech park in Bengaluru.
This is the real face of democracy in a Cong-JDS ruled state. It's total dictatorship where freedom of choice & expression of citizens is suppressed," Karnataka BJP had tweeted.
However, former Chief Minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah clarified that nobody was arrested, and as a precautionary measure a few people were taken by police and released later.
Alleging that some BJP and RSS elements were behind the instigation, he said, "When Rahul Gandhi's event is going on, as an opposition party they should have some responsibility.
We can also do the same, when Narendra Modi comes we can also disturb, we can also chant Rahul Gandhi's name."
Raising slogans 'Modi, Modi', the protesters had put up placards asking Gandhi to leave the venue, leading to a tense situation with Congress supporters too present there.
As the noise intensified, the police removed the protesters, and had detained a few of them.
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Puthucherry CM Rangasamy secures unassailable lead
Puducherry (PTI): Chief Minister and AINRC leader N Rangasamy was on course to retain his Thattanchavady Assembly constituency as counting of votes polled in the April 9 Puducherry Assembly elections was on across the UT.
At the end of four rounds of counting, which was the last one, the CM was ahead of his TVK-backed Neyyam Makkal Kazhagam candidate E Vinayakam by 4,441
votes, gaining an unassailable lead.
The veteran leader polled 10,024 while Vinayakam polled 5583 votes. Congress' Ve Vaithilingam polled 2990 votes, bracing for the fourth place after an independent.
This constituency is an important segment which drew the attention of political parties. Rangasamy has contested from two segments-Thattanchavady and Mangalam segments.
