Mangalore, January 27: Accusing the BJP-led state government of pressurizing the police department not to take any action against anti-social elements, Congress workers in the city on Friday staged a protest in front of the office of Deputy Commissioner, here.
Speaking on the occasion KPCC Secretary Ivan D'Souza lamented that even though criminal cases were registered against RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat and his accomplices for their apparent bid to spread violence in the coastal district, no action was taken against them so far.
A venomous speech delivered by Mr Bhat at a Hindu Samajotsava recently, threatening to kill Muslim youth, had sparked communal tensions in Uppinagady town and its adjacent areas in Puttur taluk. Police had registered cases under IPC section 153A and 295 A for promoting enmities between communities and causing national disintegration against Bhat the following day.
“Though the police were ready to take necessary actions against the culprits and communal goons, the State government has been exerting pressure on the former and preventing them from impartial policing”, Mr D'Souza said.
Coming down heavily on the ruling party, he said that instead of taking action against those who spread violence, the elected representatives from BJP had justified the provocative speeches of Kalladka Bhat.
He also said that the recent untoward incidents of Uppinangady and Sullia were part of wider conspiracy of communal forces, backed by the State government, to spoil communal harmony in the region.
Local leaders of Congress Suresh Ballal, Narendra Kumar, Ibrahim Bawa, Ashok Kumar, Mamata Gatti Shashidar Hegde, Praveen Alva, Farooq, Sudhir TK, Karunakar Shetty, Suresh Shetty and Suresh Baboo took part in the protest among others.
A memorandum seeking the stringent legal action against Kalladka Bhat and his accomplices, was also forwarded to Chief Minister D V Sadanada Gowda through district administration on the occasion.
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