The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : BJP blames Congress for violence

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Saturday, Apr 15, 2006

Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

BJP blames Congress for violence

Staff Reporter

Incidents were planned, alleges party

BANGALORE: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has squarely blamed the Congress for the large-scale violence in Bangalore in the aftermath of the death of the matinee idol Rajkumar.

Congress leaders, who were yet to come to terms with the loss of power, had engineered the violence, the BJP alleged.

State BJP spokesman S. Suresh Kumar said the credit for attempting to capitalise on the death when the State was plunged into grief should go to the Congress. He alleged that the violence at the time of Dr. Rajkumar's funeral was planned. Some persons deliberately sent anti-social elements, who were drunk, to create disorder and indulge in hooliganism at the funeral. That resulted in innocent persons losing their lives and the loss of public and private property worth crores of rupees.

Mr. Kumar said the violence was perpetrated by the "unholy nexus" among anti-social elements, certain police officers and politicians who were unhappy with the new coalition coming to power.

He demanded that the Government take stringent action against the forces that had brought disgrace to Karnataka. It should order a high-level inquiry into the conspiracy hatched by the Congress to bring disrepute to the Government, he added.

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