Video shows Dalits being asked to serve K'taka CM only branded tea
Bengaluru, Oct 13: The Congress on Thursday shared a video purportedly showing officials instructing a Dalit family to serve only branded and packaged tea powder instead of ordinary tea to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and BJP leader B S Yediyurappa, among others.
Bommai, Yediyurappa, along with Tourism Minister Anand Singh, Water Resources Minister Govind Karjol and other BJP leaders had breakfast in a house at Kamalapura in Vijayanagara district on Wednesday. Later, the Chief Minister's office shared the picture and videos of their breakfast.
Today, the Congress came up with the video in the twitter handle wherein the officials were purportedly giving instruction to the family even before Bommai and his team reached there.
In the video, an official accompanied by a police sub-inspector is heard saying that they would take the sample.
"... Get 250 grams of...any company's tea. Keep other tea dust separately. Don't use it. Get the company (branded) items," the official is purportedly telling the family in the video.
The video ended showing a local newspaper report, which reported that the officials told the Dalit family to use branded item and not others. Also, the video claimed that only packaged drinking water was served to the Chief Minister and others.
The Congress said this incident exposed the mentality of Sangh Pariwar.
"The real mentality of the Sangh Parivar has been exposed in the Chief Minister's 'Dalit house meal' farce. Meals at Dalits' home had been an insult for the BJP, now it suspects it too. Did the PayCM Basavaraj Bommai entered Dalits' houses to insult Dalits? Is BJP so suspicious of Dalits?" the Congress tweeted.
The PayCM is the Congress coinage accusing the Chief Minister of running a corrupt government where hefty commission is charged for public works.
There was no immediate reaction from the BJP to this tweet.
ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿಗಳ 'ದಲಿತರ ಮನೆಯ ಊಟ' ಪ್ರಹಸನದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಂಘಪರಿವಾರದ ಅಸಲಿ ಮನಸ್ಥಿತಿ ಅನಾವರಣವಾಗಿದೆ.
— Karnataka Congress (@INCKarnataka) October 13, 2022
ಬಿಜೆಪಿಗೆ ದಲಿತರ ಮನೆಯ ಊಟ ಅವಮಾನಕರವಾಗಿತ್ತು, ಈಗ ಅನುಮಾನಕರವಾಗಿದೆ.
ದಲಿತರನ್ನು ಅವಮಾನಿಸಲೆಂದೇ ದಲಿತರ ಮನೆಗೆ ಹೋದ್ರ #PayCM @BSBommai ಅವರೇ?
ದಲಿತರೆಂದರೆ ಅಷ್ಟೊಂದು ಅನುಮಾನವೇ ಬಿಜೆಪಿಗೆ?#BharatJodoYatra pic.twitter.com/2T5yeXovua
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Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya case: Hope emerges as Iran may contact victim’s family in bid for pardon
New Delhi: There appears to be a glimmer of hope for Nimisha Priya, the nurse from Kerala on death row in Yemen, as report suggest Iranian officials may reach out to the family of Talal Abdo Mahdi, her former business partner, to seek a pardon through blood money. Priya was sentenced to death for Mahdi's murder.
The 37-year-old nurse is currently imprisoned in Sana’a, the Yemeni capital, which is under the control of Iran-backed Houthis.
A report by The New Indian Express published on Friday stated that discussions are underway to gain the victim's family’s support in seeking a pardon. “It’s a relief of sorts. Iran officials could use their good offices with Houthis for the reach-out with family of the victim. Some cash has been arranged for blood money and talks are on to get the family on board to seek pardon, but we’re keeping our fingers crossed,” a source told the publication.
It is learnt that using an appropriate intermediary equivalent of Rs 30 lakh has been kept ready, the report added.
Hailing from Kollengode in Kerala’s Palakkad district, the nurse was found guilty of murdering the Yemeni citizen in July 2017. She was handed capital punishment by a trial court in 2020 while Yemen’s Supreme Judicial Council upheld the verdict in November 2023.
Mahdi, reportedly died from an overdose of sedatives allegedly injected by Priya to retrieve her passport from him.
External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the Indian government is extending all possible help in the matter. “We are closely following the developments around the sentencing of Nimisha Priya. The government is extending all possible help in the matter,” he said last week.
