Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Tuesday, March 5, said that pro-Pakistan slogans were raised in the Vidhana Soudha on February 27, following the Rajya Sabha elections in the state. However, it remains to be known who raised the slogans.
Referring to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) report, the minister said, “The FSL report has confirmed that Pakistan Zindabad slogans were raised in the Vidhana Soudha, based on the video. The individual has shouted the slogans twice, but FSL has not said who did it. There has been no intervention of any kind, and it is a straightforward continuous video. We have identified three persons and arrested them.”
He also said that the issue was not an embarrassment to the Congress government and that the arrests were made based on the FSL report as promised earlier. “We have been complying with the rule of the land, not what BJP has been saying. Our government had not tutored them to raise slogans. If there is any lapse by the police, action will be initiated against them as well,” he added.
Bengaluru police arrested three people in connection with the pro-Pakistan sloganeering in Vidhana Soudha after Congress Rajya Sabha MP Naseer Hussain’s victory in the Rajya Sabha elections. BJP leaders including Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Shobha Karandlaje, and R Ashoka had said that the MP’s supporters were involved in the sloganeering. Nasser Hussain denied the charges and called for an investigation into ‘BJP’s mischief’.
According to reports, the arrested persons have been identified as Mohammad Nashipudi from Byadagi in Haveri District, Munnawar Ahmad of Jayamahal area in Bengaluru and Mohammad Iltaz.