Bengaluru: Shobha Karandlaje MP from Udupi Chikkamgaluru and a Union Minister for Agriculture has posed a barrage of questions to the Congress party, asking them to come out with what is their relation with Imran Pratapgarhi and Rigil Chandran Mukkuti.
In a heated statement at a press conference in the city on April 20 she asked the Congress party why promote these two people as star campaigners in Karnataka.
Karandlaje said Imran Pratapgarhi was the person who put a national flag on the ‘Khabr’ (final resting place) of warlord and gangster Atiq Ahmed who was killed outside a hospital in Uttar Pradesh, Imran is now the star campaigner for Congress in the poll-bound Karnataka. Secondly, Rigil Chandran Mukkuti who had slaughtered cows on the roads of Kerala and consumed the meat and blood of the cow he slaughtered in daylight in front of women, children and youth in Kerala. Mukkuti has been seen accompanying Rahul Gandhi the then MP of Wayanad in Kerala during the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
She said Imran Pratapgarhi was the close associate of Gangster Atiq Ahmed. He was called by the Congress party many times to make inflammatory speeches full of hate for Hindus and the BJP in Karnataka and in other places where the Congress was in power. “Imran Pratapgarhi writes Shayari on Atiq and eulogises him and his evil work of killing Hindus, extortion from Hindu traders and many other crimes he has meted out on Hindus all over the country”.
‘Adityanath was not taken seriously by Congress? What is the hang-up of Congress party with Imran Pratapgarhi? And indirectly what is the engagement of the Congress party with Atiq Ahmed and his empire of crime in Uttara Pradesh.? Karandlaje asked.
Rigil Chandran Mukkuti and his associates slaughter cows in the middle of the road in Kerala and consume their blood and smear it all over their bodies and move around in the city. They later cooked the animal’s flesh and consumed it on the streets of Kerala. Such individuals are friendly with the Congress President in the state of D. K. Shivakumar, she said.
Congress has its hand (symbol) smeared with the blood of Hindus and their hand is guiding the anti-social and anti-Hindu activities of people like Atiq Ahmed and his cohorts like Imran Pratapgarhi and Rijil Chandran Mukkuti, she added.
Siddaramiah was the Chief Minister when a Hindu youth Prashanth Poojary was murdered by Islamic forces. Siddaramiah was attending a function somewhere between Puttur and Mangalore. The body of Prashanth Poojary was in the hospital but Siddaramiah told the authorities to hush up his death till he leaves Mangalore and they can announce after he reached Bangalore, she alleged.
Even in the case of Rudresh murder in Bangalore by Islamic forces of PFI, Siddaramiah and DK Shivakumar had influenced the home ministry authorities and withdrew 173 cases filed against the Islamic forces youth in the Rudresh murder cases, when the home ministry officials refused to do it as there was conclusive evidence against PFI activists of murder, rioting and arson, Siddaramiah and his Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy had raised this in the Cabinet meeting and got the government release 1700 and more Islamic PFI activists who were charged in many cases of murders, arson and looting. We had requested the Government to take the help of the Central Government and ban the PFI, but Ramalinga Reddy the then Home Minister had ruled out action against PFI and had allegedly pledged that he will support PFI lawfully, she said.
“In Karnataka Siddaramiah is the leader of Muslims as they do not have a leader with mass appeal in their own community, he and D. K Shivakumar are allegedly the leaders of all criminal elements, both of them are leading Muslims and Criminal and pitting them against Hindus and society,” Karandlaje charged .