BJP MLA Booked For Remarks Against Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Bharath Shetty has been booked for his alleged comments against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, reports news agency PTI, quoting police. Mangaluru City Police Commissioner Anupam Agarwal said at a press conference that an FIR has been filed by the police in Kavoor police station over the complaint lodged by K Anil, a Congress corporator of the Mangaluru City Corporation.

The Congress corporator, in his complaint, has alleged that MLA Bharath Shetty made a provocative statement, taking the name of Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi.

Agarwal said an investigation is on.

Meanwhile, Congress party workers and leaders continued their tirade against Shetty on Wednesday over his remarks against their party leader.

On Sunday, at a gathering in Surathkal, the BJP MLA, who represents Mangaluru City North, stated that Gandhi should be "arrested inside Parliament and slapped". This statement had gone viral, and Congress leaders and workers expressed their displeasure over it in the media and on social media.

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Addressing a press conference here, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) Working President Manjunath Bhandary took a dig at the BJP MLA, asking, "How will he enter Parliament? Will he carry a weapon to attack the Leader of the Opposition? Is Shetty a terrorist?”

He further said, “I am certain that Bharath Shetty cannot even talk straight to a common worker of the Congress party, let alone confront Rahul Gandhi."

Bhandary attributed the main cause of BJP leaders' and legislators' outburst at Rahul Gandhi to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, referring to the Congress leader as ‘balak buddhi' (childish). He asked for this term to be expunged, he added.

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He further said that due to the behavior of BJP MLAs in Dakshina Kannada district in recent days, "we are ashamed to elect MLAs from the coast". He accused the BJP of plotting riots because they "cannot accept the presence of the Congress government in the state".