FIR against MLA Muniratna, 13 others
Bengaluru, May 10: The Election Commission has filed an FIR against MLA Muniratna Naidu and 13 others in connection with the recovery of fake voter identity cards at home in Jalhahalli.
The FIR, which has been lodged against 14 people including BBMP's former BJP member Manjula Nanjamari, Manjunath, and several others, has named MLA Muniratna as 14th accused; the election commissioner informed.
Thousands of identity cards were found when election officials had conducted the raid. Handouts carrying MLA Muniratna's photo were also recovered from the spot. Following which, an FIR was lodged against the MLA based on the instructions of election commission officials.
However, the Jalahalli police have arrested Yeshwantpur Congress corporator JK Venkatesh and one Raghu, and the inquiry is on.
The police and election officials, who have registered FIR against the accused under IPC Section 120B and 171, are conducting a joint investigation.
I have no connection with the case: Muniratna
"I have no connection with the case related to fake voter ID cards that were recovered from Jalahalli. BJP is behind this," RR Nagar Congress MLA Muniratna stated.
Addressing a press conference on Thursday, Muniratna accused that BJP is behind the incident where fake voter Id cards were recovered from a flat in SLV apartment.
The FIR has been registered against me as handouts were containing my photo. I have distributed around 40,000 handouts with the permission of the commission. In every home my handouts are available. I have no connection with this case.
Why did BJP workers not complained to police after visiting the apartment? What was the need to shoot a video before the arrival of police? While all the recovered Id cards belong to residents, we do not have any necessity to get them. This is all BJP's work. Previously also BJP had done the similar activity in Hebbal constituency.
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'Rear-guard action': BJP over Mamata accepting sports minister's resignation after Messi event
New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Tuesday alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's accepting Aroop Biswas' resignation as the state sports minister is nothing but a "rear-guard action" to douse public anger over the mismanagement of football icon Lionel Messi's event last week.
BJP co-in-charge for West Bengal Amit Malviya alleged that this is also an "open confession" that the Messi event fiasco was not accidental but a government-manufactured disaster, borne out of the poor governance of Banerjee, her ministers and the state bureaucracy.
Banerjee on Tuesday accepted Biswas' resignation as the sports minister in the wake of the controversy over the mismanagement of football icon Messi's event last week, a senior leader of the ruling TMC said.
Biswas, who had written to the chief minister seeking to be relieved of his responsibilities as sports minister, will continue as a cabinet minister, retaining charge of the power department.
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Reacting to the development, Malviya said in a post on X, "TMC Sports Minister Aroop Biswas resigns after the Messi fiasco and Mamata Banerjee accepts it in record time."
"Do not mistake this for accountability; this is nothing but a rear-guard action to douse public anger. anger! This is not 'Raj Dharma'," he added.
The BJP leader alleged that the incident was the outcome of "loot" of common people which is "so synonymous" with the TMC.
The incident was also the outcome of the "shameless VIP culture that TMC thrives on and deep-rooted cronyism promoted by Banerjee," he charged.
Malviya further alleged that Biswas' resignation exposes a "collective failure of Mamata Banerjee, her partisan bureaucracy, and her crony cabinet".
"This is a symbolic sacrifice, a political hoax, soon to be buried under layers of bureaucracy, with no justice, no accountability, and no remorse," the BJP leader said, adding, "No resignation will bring back the time lost, the money wasted, or the stolen chance for football lovers to witness Messi in Kolkata."
