Bengaluru: Senior BJP leader and Karnataka minister K S Eshwarappa on Sunday stirred controversy as he termed the MLAs as ‘transgenders’ who win the elections on the base of Muslim votes.
Speaking at an event in the city organised by Sri Rama Sene to congratulated Central Government and PM Modi for abrogating Article 370 and 35A from Kashmir, Eshwarappa made the comments.
“Many Congress and JD(S) MLAs are willing to join BJP, but they are afraid they will lose the Muslim votes. They are Hijadas (transgenders) they don’t belong to BJP. Those backed by Pakistan will not vote for BJP” Eshwarappa said.
“Sri Rama Sene has become a factory that creates brave Hindutva soldiers. The agenda of Hindutva and Nationalism should be spread across the country. It is the fight to protect India. When it comes to Hindutva the whole country should stand united” he added.
Sri Rama Sene founder Pramod Mutalik along with several other leaders was present during the event.
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Hathras (UP) (PTI): The blood-soaked body of an elderly man was found inside his house in Paharpur village here on Tuesday morning, police said.
The deceased, Jagdish Prasad Sharma, 75, who lived alone, had gone to sleep in his house on Monday night, officials said.
On Tuesday morning, his blood-soaked body was lying on a cot, with marks on his head and body indicating blows from a sharp-edged weapon, they said, adding that the police suspect murder.
Police and forensic teams reached the spot upon receiving information and sent the body for a post-mortem, they said.
Additional Superintendent of Police Ramanand Kushwaha said that Sharma, a retired Health Department employee, had been living alone since his wife's death during the COVID-19 pandemic.
He owned around 20-25 bighas of land and was also engaged in money lending, the officer said.
