BIJAPUR: Accusing the BJP government of shielding Former Minister and MLA, Ramesh Jarkiholi who has allegedly been found in an objectionable position with a woman, Former MLA, and District Congress Committee (DCC) president, Raju Algur has demanded the government to arrest him immediately as the case has already been filed against Jarkiholi.
Addressing presspersons on Monday, he wondered why the government is not taking stern action of arresting Jarkiholi when a case has been filed against him nearly a month ago.
Alleging Ramesh Jarkiholi of giving flip-flop and contradictory statements, he said that when the purported video went viral, he first denied that it was not him but some lookalike was in the video.
“Then later, his brother Balchandra Jarkiholi claims that it was a honey trap to malign the image of his brother. It means that Ramesh Jarkiholi is the man seen in the video”, he said.
Algur also casts aspersions on the six Ministers getting injunction order from the Court against the release of any video about them in the CD gate case.
“When the other six ministers have obtained stay order, it means that there is something fishy about the whole episode. If the Ministers have nothing to do with the case, then why did they obtain the injunction order from the Court”, he asked.
Expressing anguish over the supporters of Ramesh Jarkiholi attacking the car of KPCC president, D. K. Shivakumar, and throwing slippers on it, Algur accused the BJP leaders of deliberately dragging the name of Shivakumar in the case.
He alleged some people of pressurizing the parents of the woman seen in the video to accuse Shivakumar, while the woman herself has not made any allegations against Shivakumar.
Algur claimed that DKShi’s name was brought in the case to possibly tarnish his image.
Demanding the arrest of Ramesh Jarkiholi, he said that the government should also provide security to the woman and allow her to submit her statement before the magistrate.
“Let her say whatever she wants to without fear, then truth will prevail, meantime arrest Ramesh Jarkiholi”, he said.
Meanwhile, concerning the Sindgi by-election where some of the Congress leaders have expressed dismay over the selection of the candidate, Algur admitted that although some people may be unhappy, High Command will convince them.
Leaders, Abdul Hamid Mushrif, Vasat Honmode, Irfan Shaikh, Mohammed Rafiq Tapal, Chandsab Gadaglav, and others were present.
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Senior Congress MLA, former Minister Shamanuru Shivashankarappa passes away
Bengaluru (PTI): Veteran Congress leader Shamanuru Shivashankarappa passed away at a private hospital here on Sunday due to age-related ailments, official sources said.
He was 95 and represented the Davanagere South Assembly constituency. He had been undergoing treatment at the hospital for some time.
Shivashankarappa is survived by three sons, including S S Mallikarjun, Karnataka Minister for Mines and Geology and Horticulture, and four daughters.
His daughter-in-law, Prabha Mallikarjun, is the Member of Parliament from Davanagere.
A former minister, Shivashankarappa, served as treasurer of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) for several decades and was the president of the All India Veerashaiva Mahasabha, the apex body of the influential Veerashaiva-Lingayat community.
He was also a noted educationist who established several educational institutions and was an industrialist.
