Karnataka Polls: Congress Files Complaint Against Amit Shah
Congress leaders Randeep Singh Surjewala, Parmeshwar and DK Shivakumar have filed a police complaint in Bengaluru’s High Grounds police station against Union Home Minister Amit Shah and organisers of BJP rally for allegedly making “provocative statements, promoting enmity and hatred and maligning opposition,” as reported by the news agency ANI.
“Union Home Minister has said that if Congress comes to power then there will be communal rights. How can he say this? We have filed a complaint with the Election Commission of India on this,” Karnataka Congress President DK Shivakumar said as quoted by ANI.
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh had on Wednesday called Amit Shah’s statement “brazenly intimidatory.” Slamming Shah, Ramesh went on to say that the people’s response to Congress’s poll campaign in Karnataka shows “Amit Shah’s 4-I strategy: Insult, Inflame, Incite & Intimidate.”
A controversy erupted after Amit Shah while addressing a public meeting in poll-bound Karnataka’s Belagavi district on Tuesday, said the development of the state will be in “reverse gear” if Congress forms the government.
“If the Congress comes to power, dynastic politics will be at an all-time high and Karnataka will be afflicted with riots,” said Shah, one of the party’s key poll strategists and campaigners. “If Congress comes to power by mistake, then corruption will be at an all-time high and there will be ‘appeasement’,” he added.
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