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Bengaluru: A Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) employee from Karnataka’s Kalaburagi district has been arrested in Hyderabad for allegedly issuing loss of life threats to Congress legislator Priyank Kharge, police stated.
Manikant Rathod from Chittapur in Kalaburagi was launched on bail on Monday hours after his arrest late on Sunday night time, police stated.
Rathod, who had allegedly issued loss of life threats to the Chittapur MLA final week, was booked underneath Part 506 (prison intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) primarily based on a criticism by native Congress leaders on the Brahmapur police station in Kalaburagi on Saturday.
After Rathod’s risk to the Congress chief, get together employees on Sunday urged the district administration to take stern motion in opposition to him and supply Z+ safety cowl to Kharge. They even threaten to gherao chief minister Basavaraj Bommai, who visited Kalaburagi, on Monday.
In a press convention on Friday, Rathod had allegedly threatened to kill Kharge. “When you shoot us, we’re additionally able to shoot you,” he had stated.
Quickly after the assertion, former Karnataka minister and Congress chief Sharan Prakash Patil alleged that the BJP-led state authorities was threatening Kharge utilizing get together employees for exposing a collection of corruption, together with irregularities within the police sub-inspector (PSI) recruitment and Bitcoin rip-off.
“The BJP is hatching a conspiracy in opposition to Priyank Kharge and is threatening him as a result of he has uncovered corruption and varied scams of the federal government,” Patil stated.
The Congress additionally alleged that after coming to energy, the BJP authorities had withdrawn the safety cowl supplied to Kharge regardless that he obtained a number of threats.
An argument erupted final week in Chittapur the place posters saying “Priyank Kharge lacking” have been noticed at a couple of locations, at a time when the Congress legislator was participating within the “Bharat Jodo Yatra”.
BJP employees led by former zilla panchayat member Aravind Chauhan had put up the posters, saying the MLA was lacking from the constituency for the previous one-and-a-half months.
The transfer sparked protests by Congress employees, who alleged the BJP put up the posters to disturb the peace.