Complaint filed against Tejasvi Surya for flaring communal tension, violating code of conduct
Bengaluru: The Congress party has formally lodged a complaint with the Election Commission against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament Tejasvi Surya on Tuesday, alleging that he made inflammatory remarks regarding a recent loudspeaker controversy in Nagarathpete, Bengaluru, thereby exacerbating communal tensions during the Lok Sabha elections.
Surya Mukundaraj, the General Secretary of Congress's legal wing, filed the complaint, accusing BJP leaders of adding a communal angle to an incident involving an attack on a shopkeeper in Nagarathpete.
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The complaint highlighted how Tejasvi Surya, along with Basavanagudi MLA Ravi Subramanya, purportedly gathered a crowd before the shop on March 18. Allegedly, they raised religious slogans and urged the gathered crowd to chant the Hanuman Chalisa at 12 PM on March 19. The complaint asserted that such actions contravene the directives of the Supreme Court and the Election Commission, which deem it an offense to incite communal or religious sentiments during electoral campaigns.
The complaint urged the Election Commission to take strict action against Tejasvi Surya for purportedly violating the model code of conduct by instigating protests with communal undertones.
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Bridge portion collapses on Jammu outskirts; 3-4 labourers feared trapped, 1 rescued
Jammu (PTI): A portion of a small bridge collapsed in the Bantalab area on the outskirts of Jammu city on Friday, trapping at least three to four labourers under the debris, while one injured worker was rescued, official sources said.
Authorities have closed the road link following the collapse of the portion of the bridge.
The incident occurred when labourers were carrying out repair work on a retaining wall near the bridge that was damaged in last year's flash floods, the sources said.
According to the sources, a section of the bridge suddenly gave way, burying workers engaged at the site under the rubble.
Police, Army and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams launched rescue operations to extricate those buried under the debris. They pulled out one injured labourer and shifted him to a hospital, the sources said.
Family members of the labourers present at the site said around six workers engaged at the site at the time of the incident came under the debris when the structure collapsed. The family members said while two of the labourers managed to escape, four got trapped.
The sources said those trapped included the husband of a woman labourer, a mason, an unmarried labourer and a relative of the contractor.
There was no official confirmation on the exact number of persons trapped under the debris till the filing of this report.
The rescue operations are ongoing.
