HC Mahadevappa, UT Khader demand BJP's apology for blowing Paresh Mesta case out of proportion
Bengaluru: Former minister Dr. H C Mahadevappa has criticized the BJP for its silence following the CBI report that Uttara Kannada youth Paresh Mestra’s death was accidental and not the outcome of any communal hatred.
Sangh Parivar activists and even BJP leaders Shobha Karandlaje and MP Anant Kumar Hegde had claimed that Paresh’s death in 2017 was a result of communal hatred and staged a protest, demanding that the CBI investigate the incident. The CBI has now submitted a report to Honnavar Court that Mesta’s death was accidental, and not a murder.
Following the submission of the CBI report, Mahadevappa tweeted, “BJP members had created a ruckus on media, calling Mesta’s death as an attack on and murder of Hindus. Why are they silent now?”
He stated, “There have also been reports that a murder suspect in the Mesta death case was given a job with the government. This news, however, puts the CBI report on the death under the line of suspicion.”
He also demanded that leaders, who use the names of Hindus very freely in politics, like Shobha Karandlaje, Anant Kumar Hegde, C T Ravi, and Nalin Kumar Kateel should publicly apologize to the people for making such a blind and false claim regarding Mesta’s death.
Similarly, Deputy Leader of Opposition in Karnataka Assembly, UT Khader also made a scratching attack on BJP regarding the issue and said added that the case is proof that the party likes to play politics over the deceased.
ಪರೇಶ್ ಮೇಸ್ತಾ ಸಾವನ್ನು ಹಿಂದೂಗಳ ಹತ್ಯೆ ಎಂದು ಮಾಧ್ಯಮಗಳ ಮೂಲಕ ಅರಚಾಡಿದ್ದ @BJP4Karnataka ಯವರು ಈಗ ಏನು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾರೆ?
— Dr H.C.Mahadevappa (@CMahadevappa) October 4, 2022
ಇದರ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಇತ್ತೀಚೆಗೆ ಪರೇಶ್ ಮೇಸ್ತಾ ಕೊಲೆ ಆರೋಪಿ ಎನ್ನಲಾದ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಯೋರ್ವನಿಗೆ ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ಒಳಗೆ ಸ್ಥಾನ ಕೊಟ್ಟ ಸುದ್ದಿ ವರದಿಯಾಗಿರುವುದು ಸಿಬಿಐ ನೀಡಿರುವ ರಿಪೋರ್ಟ್ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಅನುಮಾನ ಮೂಡುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡಿದೆ
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Sharad Pawar praised RSS after seeing how it burst fake narrative balloon of LS polls: Fadnavis
Nagpur, Jan 10: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar praised the RSS after realising how the outfit managed to overcome the fake narrative spread by the opposition in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The opposition had claimed BJP wanted to win 400 seats to change the Constitution and end reservations, a narrative which BJP leaders later claimed hit the party hard.
On Pawar praising the RSS recently, the CM said the MVA was successful in creating a fake narrative during the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
"When assembly polls were approaching, many people from diverse fields who are inspired by the RSS played their role and burst the balloon of this fake narrative. Sharad Pawar saheb is very intelligent. He would have certainly studied this aspect. He realised that this (RSS) is not a regular political power but a nationalist power. In any competition it is good to praise others," he added.
That is why Pawar may have praised the RSS, Fadnavis said.
Speaking at an interaction with senior editor Vivek Ghalsasi at Late Vilasji Fadnis Jivhala programme here, Fadnavis also said he had asked for organisational work when Eknath Shinde was made chief minister in June 2022, but senior leaders asked him to join the government.
He also said Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked him not to behave like an extra-constitutional authority in the government.
He said the decision to become deputy chief minister on the command of the party leadership earned him a lot of praise from the cadre.
After the massive mandate the ruling alliance received in the 2024 assembly polls, Fadnavis said people and party workers would not have been happy if the CM was not from the BJP.
Shinde himself agreed within minutes that the CM must be from the BJP, which itself got 132 seats and was close to a majority of its own in the 288-member assembly, he added.
On Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray meeting him during the winter sessions of the legislature in Nagpur, Fadnavis said he had announced he would not indulge in politics of revenge after becoming CM and all leaders responded positively to it.
On chances of the NCP (SP) and NCP coming closer or reuniting, Fadnavis said, "If you see the developments that took place from 2019 to 2024, I realised never say never and anything can happen. Uddhav Thackeray goes to some other party and Ajit Pawar comes to us. In politics anything can happen though I am not saying this should happen."
He praised BJP leader Arun Gujarati from whom he learnt patience, which he claimed was an important quality in politics along with the ability to take criticism.
In a lighter vein, he said, "I only get angry when I am hungry. If you see me angry then give me something to eat and my anger will go away."
