Karnataka BJP delegation to meet Amit Shah
Bengaluru (PTI): A delegation of the Karnataka BJP will meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Monday night, the party state unit said.
"The delegation will submit a report to Amit Shah regarding the Dharmasthala issue. We will also discuss the Koppal incident and other cases of attacks on Hindus," a statement issued by the BJP said.
The Dharmasthala controversy erupted after a former sanitation worker alleged that while he was in service, he was, over a period of time, forced to bury several dead bodies, including the bodies of women, some of which bore marks of sexual violence.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT), was formed by the state government to look into these allegations. SIT led excavations at several places, identified by the complainant-witness, along the banks of the River Nethravathi to see if there were skeletal remains. In two of the places, they found skeletal remains.
The sanitation worker, whose identity was not revealed earlier, was arrested later for perjury and identified as C N Chinnaiah. Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar said there was a conspiracy to defame Dharmasthala. The BJP has termed it a conspiracy to malign the temple and held a protest.
In Koppal, a 27-year-old youth leader Gavisiddappa Nayak was murdered on August 3. The BJP has demanded a CBI probe into the incident.
The delegation that will meet Shah include Opposition Leader R Ashoka, Legislative Council Opposition Leader Chalavadi Narayanaswamy, MLA Harish Poonja and BJP legislators from the Mangaluru region, the statement said.
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Karnataka HC quashes BJP's defamation case against Rahul Gandhi
Bengaluru (PTI): The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday quashed the defamation proceedings initiated by the BJP against top Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
The case was filed in 2023, when BJP was in power in Karnataka, following a "corruption rate card" published by the then opposition Congress to claim large scale irregularities prevailing in the state under the saffron party's rule.
Along with Gandhi, now Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, the BJP had accused the then Karnataka LoP Siddaramaiah and Congress state president D K Shivakumar.
Presently Siddaramaiah is the Chief Minister and Shivakumar is his deputy.
Challenging the defamation case, Gandhi had approached the High Court stating that the continuation of the case would be an abuse of law.
The bench of Justice S Sunil Dutt Yadav allowed the petition.
The complainant said that Rahul Gandhi, Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar had conspired together to defame the BJP government and made baseless allegation and insinuation.
