Yatnal camp in New Delhi, to submit memorandum to JPC on Waqf
New Delhi/Bengaluru (PTI): As the entire Basanagouda Patil Yatnal camp of the BJP is now in New Delhi, BJP MLA of that camp, Ramesh Jarkiholi on Tuesday said they are in the national capital to submit their report to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Waqf and not for any other purpose.
He accused BJP state president B Y Vijayendra of spreading propaganda against them. Jarkiholi has also accused Vijayendra of indulging in anti-party activities. “We have come here to give a representation to the JPC on Waqf Board, when the entire committee would sit on December 5. We will personally meet the JPC,” Jarkiholi told reporters in New Delhi.
The Gokak BJP MLA said they have also sought time to meet BJP national president and Union Minister of Health J P Nadda. “The Parliament is in session. If he gives time, we will meet him. If he doesn’t we will come back again,” Jarkiholi said.
Yatnal is a strong critic of BJP veteran and former Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and his family, especially his son and the party's Karnataka chief B Y Vijayendra. He has often targeted them and demanded that the BJP central leadership check Yediyurappa's 'dynasty politics' in order to fight against the 'dynasty politics' of Congress effectively.
Yatnal along with a few senior BJP leaders, including MLA Ramesh Jarkiholi, Arvind Limbavali, Mahesh Kumtahalli, and Madhu Bangarappa had taken out a month-long anti-Waqf march from Bidar to Chamarajanagar. The march started on November 25 and will conclude on December 25.
The march is widely perceived as a show of strength by the anti-Vijayendra faction within the BJP. Yatnal has said the march was not directed against any individual but aimed at "protecting farmers, Sanatana Dharma, and Hindus from eviction notices issued by the state Waqf Board."
Jarkiholi said they all wished to meet the senior BJP leaders to seek their guidance. Speaking about their Delhi visit, he said it is a planned event to submit their report to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Waqf. “We have stated in Kalaburagi and Belagavi that our first phase of anti-Waqf campaign would complete on December 1. Then we will meet the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Waqf and submit our report. There is nothing special about it,” he explained.
Since, the entire team is in Delhi, he said he is ready for discussion. When asked about the charges of using foul language against Vijayendra, he said no one had ever abused him. “We only spoke in North Karnataka language. You please understand this,” Jarkiholi said.
He accused Vijayendra of causing damage to the party.
“Being the state president, he is indulged in anti-party activities and not us. It is the Vijayendra team which is trying to sabotage the anti-Waqf campaign. If he had taken it seriously, we would not have questioned him. If he had done it before Basanagouda Patil Yatnal then we would not have run this campaign,” the MLA said.
He clarified that they did not do anything anti-party and all their actions were within the framework of BJP.
Meanwhile talking to reporters, BJP state president B Y Vijayendra said the BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh came to Bengaluru to strengthen the party and not for any other purpose.
“This is a ‘Saghatana Parva’ (festival of organisation) happening, which is related to membership drive. In this connection BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh and Karnataka co-in charge Sudhakar Reddy have come to Bengaluru,” he told reporters. He said there was no politics involved in it.
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Nashik court sends ‘godman’ Kharat to seven-day judicial custody in third rape case
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Nashik (PTI): A court in Maharashtra's Nashik on Monday remanded self-styled godman Ashok Kharat to judicial custody till April 20 in a third case of rape against him for allegedly sexually exploiting a pregnant woman.
The special investigation team (SIT) produced Kharat for a virtual hearing in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate B N Ichpurani as his police custody in the case ended on Monday.
The SIT presented the remand report and sought judicial custody for Kharat, a former merchant navy officer. The court then remanded him to a seven-day judicial custody till April 20.
In the third case, Kharat, who was first arrested in mid-March, is accused of sexually exploiting a seven-month pregnant woman, the wife of his office staffer.
According to the complaint lodged by the victim's husband, the accused sexually assaulted the survivor on multiple occasions, including in his office in Nashik, between November 2023 and December 2025.
Kharat also conducted a ritual with the pregnant woman at a temple in Mirgaon village of Sinnar taluka of the district, it said.
Although the victim informed her husband about her plight, he did not believe her. But when he heard about complaints of Kharat's misbehaviour with other women, he planted a spy camera in the astrologer's office to find out the truth and recorded his acts.
The employee later handed over to the police a pen drive containing objectionable videos of the 'godman'.
Kharat faces nearly a dozen cases, eight of them related to sexual assaults.
The SIT, meanwhile, has filed an application in the court demanding Kharat's custody in another case. As the court granted them the necessary permission, the team will take the accused's custody from the Nashik Road Central Jail.
Kharat will be produced in court again in the fourth case on Tuesday.
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