Mounesh Vishwakarma

Daijiworld Media Network - Bantwal (SP)

Bantwal, Nov 16: Union minister for law and justice, D V Sadananda Gowda, held the chief minister (CM) of Karnataka directly responsible for the incidents that have been occurring as a fallout of the celebration of Tipu Sultan's birth anniversary. "This is CM's own folly. The home department in the state has totally failed in all segments. Law and order situation is at it lowest ebb," he commented.

He was speaking to media persons after visiting the house of Harish Poojary near Halegetu in Manihalla in the taluk, who was killed after being stabbed recently, on Sunday November 15. Besides offering condolences and consoling grieving parents and sister of the late Harish, he also handed over Rs 50,000 as his personal contribution to the family.

DVS questioned the CM about the propriety of taking a decision to go ahead with the celebrations of Tipu Sultan's birth anniversary, even after there was vehement opposition to the proposal in the state assembly, legislative council, and the people in general. Recalling that excesses committed by Tipu in Kodagu district have remained permanently etched in the minds of the people there, he wanted to know which were the compulsions under which the CM decided to celebrate this event.

"The intelligence department in the state has been as good as dead since the last two years, and deaths of youngsters and children have become a routine affair in the state. There is total administrative failure in the state, and the people are faced with the need to cope up with this government for two more years. With the aim of camouflaging its own failures, the home department has been trying to pass on the buck to the Sangh Parivar," he noted. He warned that there may be uprising from the people if such incidents keep occurring.

DVS pointed out that murders have happened inside the jail after Parameshwar took over as home minister. Saying that a plan to start trouble in the name of Tipu birth anniversary had been hatched, he asked the concerned to learn lessons from the incidents happening in the state since a week, and suggested for ordering judicial inquiry into all these incidents. Predicting that serious repercussions might occur if the government fails to comply with these suggestions, he advised the ruling party to pay attention towards maintaining law and order instead of stooping to the extent of playing dirty politics to decimate the enemies.

At the same time, Gowda asserted that the central government would not interfere wuth the functioning of the home department in the state, and that it will extend all assistance needed by the state for maintaining law and order.

MP, Nalin Kumar Kateel, MLC, Ganesh Karnik, district BJP president, Pratap Simha Nayak, block committee president, G Abnand, former MLAs, Rukmaya Poojary and Padmanabha Kottary, zilla panchayat member, Girija, Sanjeeva Matandoor, Tungappa Bangera and a number of other leaders were present.

On the way to Navoor, the minister also met Dr Prabhakar Kallada, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader, at Kalladka.