BENGALURU: More than thousands of people took to streets across Karnataka to protest the death of IAS officer DK Ravi on March 16. Even three days after his alleged ‘suicide’, the uproar refuses to die down and the protests against the Government’s lackadaisical approach to the high-profile case, are getting shriller by the second.
Bengaluru’s streets are filled with people venting their ire against a Government refusing to take up responsibility. Even without an official call for protest, the city is witnessing hundreds of people across sections out on roads screaming slogans and carrying pluck-cards that that clearly demanded a CBI instigation.
It was a similar scene in Tumkur, where scores of ABVP members violently protested Ravi’s death. Police had to lathicharge the protestors to bring the situation under control. Siddaramaiah, who earlier met Ravi’s parents, who had camped outside Vidhana Souda, has urged them to have faith in CID officers.
Even Lok Sabha is feeling the heat of the situation, where Pralhad Joshi presented the matter before the Parliament and urged that handing the case over to the CBI was the only solution. Meanwhile, Siddaramaiah received a call from Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who suggested the Congress CM to allow CBO officials to step in.
Members of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal Secular (JDS) met the Governor at his residence and presented a memorandum urging him to look into the matter and give it priority. They claimed that the ruling party feared a CBI probe as it would put many of their ministers in trouble. It remains to be seen if the CM takes a call and hand over the case to the CBI.