Bengaluru’s High Grounds police have summoned Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President JP Nadda and the party’s IT-cell head, Amit Malviya, on Wednesday regarding a tweet posted by BJP Karnataka allegedly against the SC/ST community. They are asked to appear at Bengaluru’s High Grounds police station within seven days.
The summon follows a complaint lodged by an individual named Ramesh Babu on May 5 at the High Grounds police station regarding a video posted on BJP’s Karnataka X handle. The video is alleged to have aimed at stirring feelings of enmity, hatred, and ill-will against members of the SC/ST community. An FIR has been registered, and an investigation is going on.
In another development, the Election Commission of India wrote to the nodal officer of X platform, instructing the immediate removal of the “objectionable” social media post by BJP Karnataka.
The controversy stemmed from an animated video posted by the state unit of BJP on May 4 on the social media platform ‘X’. On May 5, the Congress party filed a complaint with the Election Commission, alleging BJP Karnataka’s intent to incite rioting and promote enmity.
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