Posters calling HD Kumaraswamy 'electricity thief' put up: Srirampur Police file FIR against 3
Bengaluru: Srirampur Police officers have filed FIR against three people, Bindu, Naveen Gowda and one more person, for putting up posters on the compound walls of the JD(S) office at JP Bhavan in Seshadripuram accusing him of electricity theft.
The FIR was filed based on a police complaint by JD(S) Bengaluru President HM Ramesh Gowda accusing the three people of putting up such posters, dubbing Kumaraswamy an 'electricity thief', before absconding, on the night of Tuesday, November 14.
The poster carried a photo of the former Karnataka Chief Minister Kumaraswamy along with the phrase calling him 'electricity thief'. The police, immediately on being informed of the posters with the controversial message, rushed to the JD(S) office and got the posters removed from the JP Bhavan compound walls.
The Karnataka Congress had, on Tuesday, posted a video along with a statement on its official 'X' account, accusing the JD(S) leader of drawing power illegally to illuminate his house at JP Nagar for Diwali. A case was also registered against Kumaraswamy by the Vigilance Wing of the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM) under section 135 of the Indian Electricity Act (Theft of electricity).
While Kumaraswamy clarified that it was not his fault but of a private decorator who gave the connection directly from a nearby electricity pole and that, when he got to know, he immediately got it removed and took the electricity connection from the meter board of the house, the drama continued using posters calling him an 'electricity thief'.
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Put petty politics aside; it's not about one party, but India: Rahul on TMC's loss in polls
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday termed the BJP's victory in Bengal and Assam assembly polls a "theft" of the mandate, and a big step forward in the saffron party's mission to "destroy" Indian democracy.
Gandhi also came out in support of the TMC, which has been trounced by the BJP in the polls, and urged those gloating over the loss of Mamata Banerjee's party to put petty politics aside.
"Some in the Congress, and others, are gloating about TMC's loss.They need to understand this clearly - the theft of Assam and Bengal's mandate is a big step forward by the BJP in its mission to destroy Indian democracy," Gandhi said in a post on X.
"Put petty politics aside. This is not about one party or another. This is about India," he said in his post.
The BJP ousted Trinamool Congress from power in Bengal and captured power for the third time in a row in Assam in results of assembly polls declared on Monday.
