BENGALURU: Tensions are gradually escalating between the newly formed Congress government and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka, as they find themselves locked in a series of contentious disputes.
The Congress government in Karnataka has unequivocally expressed its intention to revoke all laws deemed detrimental to the welfare of the people, which were enacted during the previous BJP regime. However, a sharp disagreement has arisen between the leaders of the two parties as the Congress government pushes forward with its plan to repeal the anti-cow slaughter law, sparking a heated exchange of words.
“It is not even a fortnight in Karnataka after Congress assumed power, but the repeated statements of ministers warning imprisonment every time, reminds the strategy of Congress during emergency in 1975,” former CM Basavaraj Bommai stated on Tuesday.
“If you think in the beginning stage itself that the mandate given by the people is to trample the opposition, you will have to pay a heavy price,” Bommai told the ruling party.
Speaking on the statements of Congress ministers over any opposition against the revision of the law on cow slaughter, textbook revision, Bommai remarked that the Congress leaders have already got hang of the power.
Commenting on Bommai’s statements, minister for health and family welfare Dinesh Gundu Rao retaliated on Tuesday, “Mr Bommai, which emergency situation are you talking about? Don’t you feel that your PM Narendra Modi government’s ways of misusing investigating agencies to trample on freedom of speech is like an emergency situation?”
He further attacked that the BJP leaders are acting like a cat which had burnt its tail after losing elections. “Mr Bommai, as a responsible government we need to keep the healthy society intact. I pity your discretion for making judgment on action taken against those who violate laws and take law into their hands is dubbed as an emergency situation,” he charged.
With inputs from IANS
The Congress government in Karnataka has unequivocally expressed its intention to revoke all laws deemed detrimental to the welfare of the people, which were enacted during the previous BJP regime. However, a sharp disagreement has arisen between the leaders of the two parties as the Congress government pushes forward with its plan to repeal the anti-cow slaughter law, sparking a heated exchange of words.
“It is not even a fortnight in Karnataka after Congress assumed power, but the repeated statements of ministers warning imprisonment every time, reminds the strategy of Congress during emergency in 1975,” former CM Basavaraj Bommai stated on Tuesday.
“If you think in the beginning stage itself that the mandate given by the people is to trample the opposition, you will have to pay a heavy price,” Bommai told the ruling party.
Speaking on the statements of Congress ministers over any opposition against the revision of the law on cow slaughter, textbook revision, Bommai remarked that the Congress leaders have already got hang of the power.
Commenting on Bommai’s statements, minister for health and family welfare Dinesh Gundu Rao retaliated on Tuesday, “Mr Bommai, which emergency situation are you talking about? Don’t you feel that your PM Narendra Modi government’s ways of misusing investigating agencies to trample on freedom of speech is like an emergency situation?”
He further attacked that the BJP leaders are acting like a cat which had burnt its tail after losing elections. “Mr Bommai, as a responsible government we need to keep the healthy society intact. I pity your discretion for making judgment on action taken against those who violate laws and take law into their hands is dubbed as an emergency situation,” he charged.
With inputs from IANS