Written by Pathi Venkata Thadhagath
Bengaluru’s Rajajinagar MLA Suresh Kumar has written to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman requesting her to ban promoting, advertising, and texting by on-line gaming firms. He highlighted that the web gaming platforms had ruined the lives of many individuals in Bengaluru, in a letter dated December 8.
The Bharatiya Janata Occasion(BJP) MLA wrote, “As a lawmaker representing Rajajinagar meeting constituency in Bengaluru, Karnataka, I’m in receipt of verbal complaints from a number of pals and fogeys of residents from my very own constituency in addition to from different elements of Bengaluru that they’ve been getting each textual content messages on their cell phones and unsolicited advertising calls making an attempt to entice/power them to play on-line rummy by betting their cash.”
He additionally talked about that firms lure customers with a ‘welcome bonus’ of hundreds of rupees and make them addicts of those platforms. The senior chief additionally warned that these gaming platforms are like liquor and cigarettes. “Although the consumption of liquor and cigarettes is allowed underneath the legislation, their producers are expressly prohibited from promoting and advertising them, and even our GST regime treats them as demerit items. The federal government imposes steep taxation on them to discourage individuals from consuming them,” he added.
“I’m of the robust view that the identical laws ought to apply to on-line video games involving cash. I’m conscious courts have upheld the authorized validity of on-line video games of talent, however there is no such thing as a bar on the federal government from prohibiting promoting, advertising and texting by on-line gaming firms to lure individuals into enjoying these video games by betting cash,” he additional wrote within the letter.
(With inputs of ANI)