BJP protests near Home Minister’s residence

The BJP on Thursday staged a demonstration near Karnataka Home Minister Dr G Parameshwara’s residence alleging the Congress government was supporting “terrorists” and siding with the accused girls in the Udupi washroom video case.
Party activists also staged protests in several parts of Karnataka including the coastal district headquarters town of Udupi accusing the Congress of indulging in “appeasement politics.”
In Bengaluru, the activists raised slogans near Parameshwara’s residence alleging that he is “preparing ground” to withdraw police cases against the rioters of DJ Halli and KG Halli riots three years ago in which the then sitting Congress Dalit MLA Akhanda Srinivasa Murthy’s house and KG Halli police stations were torched.
Three people were killed and over 50 injured in the riots that erupted in D J Halli and K G Halli, allegedly due to a derogatory social media post by a relative of the Murthy in August 2020.
Parameshwara has asked officials to examine the request by a Congress MLA to withdraw cases against “innocent” youths and students, who were arrested under “false cases” in connection with protests and riots in Bengaluru’s D J Halli and K G Halli, Shivamogga and Hubballi among other places.
The Opposition BJP has sharply reacted to this and has accused the Congress government in the state of giving “clean chit to the communal criminals of one community, and playing to the tune of Jihadists and PFI terrorists”.