Siddu vows legal action against KSE over 'law to kill' remarks

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah threatened BJP leader KS Eshwarappa with legal action over purported incitement to violence.

A day prior, Eshwarappa had called upon the BJP government at the Centre to bring a law to ensure that “secessionist” remarks such as those allegedly made by Congress MP from Bengaluru Rural DK Suresh are punished by death.

Taking note of the remarks, Siddaramaiah said that it calls for violence was the hallmark of the RSS, the parent body of the BJP, which Eshwarappa is associated with.

“Eshwarappa doesn’t know any other language apart from ‘beat, hack and kill’. He says he’s been trained in the RSS. Legal action will be taken against him. What kind of language is it to use when you say DK Suresh must be shot?” he asked.

The CM made the comments to mediapersons during his official visit to Hosadurga taluk of Chitradurga on Friday.

Eshwarappa had claimed that Suresh and Congress MLA from Dharwad Vinay Kulkarni had demanded a separate state.

In the backdrop of the Union Budget, Suresh had alleged that tax money from southern states had been directed to the north, which might cause enough resentment among the former to demand a separate nation.

“If you speak like this, I’d like to ask Narendra Modi through this gathering that bring a law under which traitors like DK Suresh and Vinay Kulkarni who want the nation divided would be shot to death,” Eshwarappa said.