Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s move to withdraw communal cases against minorities in the state has become the new topic of politicking.
On Friday, 26 January, a copy of a circular was written by Additional Inspector General of Police Shivprakash Devraj to 22 Superintendents of Police and Police Commissioners of Mangaluru, Superintendents of Police – Tumkur, Kolar, Ramnagar, Chikkaballapur, KGF, Mysuru, Hassan, Kodagu, Chamarajanagar, Belagavi, Vijayapura, Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri, Karwar, Chikmagalur, Udupi, Ballari, Kalburgi, Bidar and Yadgir.
The letter states that the opinions of the said police officials was sought on 22 December 2017 and that reminder letters were sent out on 2 and 19 January this year.
“If this is not blatant Muslim appeasement, then what is? Siddaramaiah is planning to give a clean chit to those accused of serious offences. We will fight against this,” she said.
Joining the bandwagon, Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, Jagadish Shettar said that Siddaramaiah’s move “exposed dirty appeasement politics played by the Congress.”
“The cases have not received a verdict in a court of law. Despite this, the Siddaramaiah government is planning to declare the accused innocent. This is dirty appeasement politics,” Jagadish Shettar said.
While Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council said that Siddaramaiah was playing “double-game politics,” Union Minister Sadananda Gowda said that the CM had gone into depression.”
Rubbishing the BJP’s claims, Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy defended the government’s decision.
The chief minister also defended the government’s decision and accused the BJP of trying to polarise voters ahead of the upcoming Assembly Elections.
The Congress government had previously received flak after it dropped over 150 cases against PFI in 2015.
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