Bengaluru: Senior BJP leader, Jagadish Shettar asserted here on Tuesday that his party did not support any kind of killing, whether Hindu or Muslim or moral policing and would not shield those involved.
Mr Shettar, who was speaking to reporters here, was answering a question on a recent moral policing incident in Mudigere, which led to a female student committing suicide. "We have said this before that we condemn any kind of killing, Hindu or Muslim. We will not shield the culprits. Even if members of our organisations are involved, action should be taken against them,'' he said.
The BJP leader , however, accused the state government of trying to blame his part for its own failure to maintain law and order, and claimed it was following the Kerala module to kill Hindu activists.
"Although over 23 Hindu activists have been murdered, the Chief Minister has never visited any of their families. It was only after the murder of one Mr Bashir, that he visited the house of murdered activist , Deepak Rao, because he had visited the former's family too," Mr Shettar alleged.
Also, accusing the government of not banning organisations like the Popular Front of India (PFI), SDPI and KFD to merely protect its minority votebank, he said it could send a proposal to the Centre to ban them if it wanted to. Instead it was protecting them and now they had grown so strong that they were planning to contest elections, he deplored.
"After Indian Mujahiddin and SIMI were banned for terrorist activities, their members joined KFD, PFI and SDPI," he charged, regretting that while the state blamed BJP for killing of rationalists like Kalaburgi and journalist, Gauri Lankesh, it was silent on killing of Hindu activists.
