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BJP calls for ban on KFD

B.C. ROAD: President of State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) D.V. Sadananda Gowda said here on Wednesday that the Government should ban the Karnataka Forum for Dignity (KFD).

“The KFD is another face of the banned organisation Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI),” he said addressing presspersons here on Wednesday.

Mr. Gowda alleged that the KFD had spread its network in the coastal belt.

Members of the forum who make provocative statements should be arrested, the BJP leader said.

The BJP leader alleged that the demand by M. Mallikarjun Kharge, president of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, that the government should entrust the investigation into the recent exposure of terror network in the State from CoD to the Central Bureau of Investigation was a “move to change tack of the investigation by the Congress.”

Staff Correspondent reports from Madikeri:

The KFD, Kodagu unit, on Wednesday criticised the Sangh Parivar and the BJP for comparing the organisation to the SIMI and demanding a ban on the KFD, linking it to terrorist activities.

Speaking to presspersons, district vice-president of the forum, Zakriya, alleged that a section of the media too had ranged against the KFD.

He alleged that the Sangh Parivar and the BJP were wary of the KFD, which, he said, was exposing their evil designs.

Members of the KFD’s district committee K.C.Basheer and K.A. Usman were present.

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