Karnataka becoming safe haven for communal elements, criminals: Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar
New Delhi (PTI): Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar claimed on Wednesday that Karnataka is becoming a "safe haven" for communal elements and criminals as he hit out at the Congress government in the southern state over the killing of a Jain monk in Belagavi district.
The Rajya Sabha MP from Karnataka also claimed that the state police swung into action in the matter only after repeated protests by the BJP.
"It is shocking that Karnataka under Rahul Gandhi's Congress government has in a few months become a safe haven for communal elements and criminals. The brutal murder of the Jain monk is shocking," Chandrasekhar said.
Claiming that the state police swung into action only after repeated protests staged by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he said it is shocking and questions should be asked as to what is happening in Karnataka where law and order was restored under the previous government of the saffron party.
Citing several recent incidents of crime, Chandrasekhar said it is like "rampant unleashing of vested interests because they must be feeling that Karnataka is a safe haven as long as the target are these people who are associated with a particular religion or faith".
It is sad to see that the state is becoming a "centre of such brutal and violent crimes", he alleged.
Jain monk Acharya Sri Kamakumara Nandi Maharaj, who was heading a monastery at Hirekodi in Chikkodi taluk of Belagavi, was chopped into pieces and his dismembered body parts were dumped in a defunct borewell.
Two men -- Narayana Basappa Madi and Hassan Dalayath -- have been arrested in the case. Police suspect that money-related matters were behind the killing.
Opposition BJP legislators staged a sit-in on Wednesday near the Gandhi statue in the Vidhana Soudha, the seat of the Karnataka legislature in Bengaluru, against the brutal killing of the Jain monk.
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Birsa Munda's great-grandson, injured in road accident, dies of cardiovascular failure in Ranchi
Ranchi (PTI): Tribal icon Birsa Munda's great-grandson Mangal Munda, who was undergoing treatment at a hospital here after being injured in a road accident, died of "cardiovascular failure" on Friday, an official of the health facility said.
He was 45.
Mangal Munda breathed his last at 12.30 am at the state's apex health facility - Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences.
Munda sustained severe head injuries after he fell from the roof of a passenger vehicle in Jharkhand's Khunti district on November 25.
"Birsa Munda's kin Mangal Munda died of cardiovascular failure around 12.30 am. He was on a ventilator after being critically injured. We tried our best to save him but failed," RIMS Medical Superintendent Dr Hiren Birua told PTI.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office, Union Health Minister JP Nadda and the Jharkhand Chief Minister's office were in touch with the RIMS authorities in connection with Munda's treatment.
