From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network

Bengaluru, Mar 21: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who gave a big thumbs up for those opposing superstitions by deciding to present the State’s annual budget for the year 2016-17 on Friday during what is generally considered as the most inauspicious period of Rahu Kaalam, informed the Legislative Assembly that the State Government has not given up its proposal of bringing the anti-superstition Bill that aimed at banning superstitious practices.

Intervening during the debate on creation of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Assembly on Monday, he said the law was needed to check blind beliefs and superstitious practices. 

The State Government would table the Bill in the coming days to protect people from being exploited, Siddaramaiah said.

Earlier, Leader of the Opposition Jagadish Shettar criticised Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T B Jayachandra, who defended the creation of ACB, for piloting the anti-superstition Bill and later withdrawing it following a wide-spread protest against the Bill.

The BJP leader Shettar and Speaker Kagodu Thimmppa said mere law would not help prevention of superstitious practices and there was need to create awareness among the people about the ill-effects of blind beliefs.