BENGALURU: State BJP General Secretary Shobha Karandlaje dared Congress president Rahul Gandhi to declare his stand on the deteriorating law and order in Karnataka, particularly in Bengaluru, which she compared to the infamous ‘Kothwal-Jairaj’ era when goondaism was at its peak in Bengaluru in the 1980s.
“Rahul must speak on whether the Congress government’s goondaism and arrogant politics will end or continue,’’ she said.Congress’ inaction against its MLA Muniratna who carted away BBMP’s 1,200 files to his house, a string of attacks on BJP activists including Kanatharaju and Santosh of Yeshwantpur had sent a message that the Congress government supports such high-handedness, she said.
With law failing to evoke a fear among miscreants, there are apprehensions among residents that it is unsafe to live in Bengaluru, Shobha said. She also sought an answer from the Chief Minister and the Home Minister for not punishing Shantinagar Congress MLA N A Haris by seeking his resignation for preventing the police from discharging their duties. Shobha condemned the Chief Minister for inviting Haris and sitting next to him at a high-level meeting of senior police officers.
Why no probe into Haris junior’s illegal guns?
Shobha also urged the CM and the HM to come clean on the delay in arresting Haris’s son Mohammed Nalapad Haris. The CM had promised to have Mohammed arrested immediately, but he evaded arrest for nearly 38 hours to erase evidences of having been under the influence of drugs. Though Mohammed is in illegal possession of at least seven firearms, no case had been registered, she added.
MP procures ganja, gives it to Vijayapura SP
Accusing the Congress of remaining silent on the increasing drug menace in the state, Shobha dramatically declared that she had effortlessly procured ganja in Vijayapura. “I paid `100 and asked our party workers to procure ganja in the presence of Vijaypura superintendent of police and the deputy commissioner in Inspection Bunglow,’’ she said.