Bengaluru: After Congress Leader Syed Nasir Hussain emerged victorious in the Rajya Sabha polls on Tuesday, February 28, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused a worker of raising pro-Pakistan slogans during celebrations in the premise of the Legislative Assembly.
Karnataka BJP on Wednesday launched a statewide protest to condemn the alleged incident of the raising of “pro-Pakistan” slogans.
Leader of the Opposition, R. Ashoka took a protest march from the State Legislators’ House to the Vidhana Soudha slamming the Congress government for not addressing the issue seriously.
The LoP in the Legislative Council Kota Srinivas Poojari, BJP General Secretary and MLA V. Sunil Kumar and other BJP MLAs joined him in the protest.
Ashoka stated, “I have sought time from the Governor’s office. The BJP delegation will meet him and submit a memorandum to sack the Congress government immediately. The matter will be raised in the Assembly session in a big manner.”
“It is shameful that people are allowed to raise ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans in the premises of the state legislature. This development puts down the sacrifice of thousands of our soldiers. The Congress government had withdrawn more than 2,000 cases against the Popular Front of India (PFI) and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) party workers accused in criminal cases. Today, anti-India and ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans are taken everywhere,” he charged.
“Instead of securing and arresting the accused who raised the ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogan, they were sent out in cars safely in the presence of the police,” Ashoka stated.
Sunil Kumar said, “The Congress government has taken the incident lightly. The government has failed to ensure arrests in the case. This is the result of the policy of appeasement. The anti-national forces are emboldened by Congress rule. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah should take moral responsibility for the incident.”
Congress on BJP’s allegations pro Pakistan slogans
Amid these allegations of the BJP, the Congress MP released a statement that he heard a lot of slogans in his support, including Nasir Khan Zindabad, Nasir Sahab Zindabad and Nasir Hussain Zindabad, but did not hear what the media has been claiming.
“If somebody has raised such a slogan then he has to be healthy strictly and sternly, according to the law. And in case someone has doctored or morphed the video and played mischief that also has to be enquired. In case someone has raised the slogan. Who was it? How did they reach the premises? These things have to be determined,” said the MP.
Reacting to the allegations, Karnataka Home Minister Dr. G. Parameshwara said the incident involving an individual raising ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogan has been reported in the media. The clippings of the media will be secured and sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) for examination. Each media house has presented the story in a different manner, he added.
“The BJP party has also lodged a complaint and both are being investigated. Some are claiming that the slogan was ‘Naseer Hussain Zindabad’ and some alleging that it was ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogan. If it is scientifically proven that an anti-national slogan is raised they will be punished, if not the question does not arise,” the minister said.
In the meantime, the Karnataka Police have registered a suo motu case regarding the case.
