Mosques will be demolished to build temples says senior BJP leader
Haveri: KS Eshwarappa, senior BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka, ignited a controversy during a party meet in Haveri district by stating that mosques will be demolished to construct temples.
He asserted that the temples which have been destroyed by Mughals would be reconstructed after destroying the mosques. He mentioned that the court is providing a survey report about Kashi Vishwanath temple, similar to the one in Ayodhya. He added that the same will be witnessed in Mathura Krishna temple.
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Eshwarappa stated that only the mosques constructed on temple sites will be destroyed. “We do not want to destroy new mosques; only those constructed on temple sites will be razed, be it today, tomorrow, or in the future, even after 50 years,” he said.
This is not the first time Eshwarappa has found himself mired in a controversy. Earlier in April, he made a derogatory reference to the azaan, the Islamic call to prayer, by calling it a "headache".
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BJP declares 3 candidates for Maharashtra council bypolls
Mumbai, Mar 16 (PTI): The BJP on Sunday announced the names of three candidates, including a close aide of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and a former MLA, for the March 27 by-elections to five seats in the state legislative council.
The by-elections have been necessitated due to the victory of the five sitting MLCs in the November 2024 assembly polls.
Three of the MLCs who entered the assembly were from the BJP, followed by one each of the Shiv Sena and the NCP. All three parties are constituent of the ruling Mahayuti coalition in the state.
The BJP on Sunday announced the names of Sandip Diwakarrao Joshi, former mayor of Nagpur and a close aide of Fadnavis, Sanjay Kishanrao Kenekar, general secretary of the state BJP unit, and former MLA Dadarao Yadavrao Keche, for the council bypolls.
Keche won the 2009 and 2019 assembly elections from Arvi constituency in Wardha district of the Vidarbha region. He was denied ticket for the 2024 polls as the BJP then fielded Fadnavis' former personal secretary Sumit Wankhede from the Arvi seat.
The last day for filing nominations by candidates is March 17.
The byelections of the MLCs are from the MLA quota in the 288-member legislative assembly.
The BJP has 132 MLAs, Shiv Sena 57 and NCP 41, making them comfortably placed to win all the five seats, given their dominating presence in the lower house.
The last date of scrutiny of nominations is March 18, while candidates can withdraw from the contest on March 20. If needed, voting will take place on March 27 with the MLAs forming the electoral college.
