Through the second day of Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra in Karnataka, the police arrested a Congress employee carrying a ‘Pay CM’ t-shirt Saturday.
The arrested was recognized as Akshay Kumar, a Congress employee from Vijayapura, who had come to participate within the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi.
Just lately, Congress had launched a marketing campaign towards the ruling BJP authorities highlighting an alleged corruption. Posters have been put in throughout the town which carried QR-coded photographs of Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai together with a “Pay CM” emblem.
The state unit of Congress has been concentrating on the BJP with allegations of corruption by quoting allegations made by the Karnataka Contractors Affiliation in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July 2021, which said that the demand for bribes within the state had risen from 10 per cent to 40 per cent underneath the BJP authorities.
Kumar, through the Bharat Jodo Yatra, was seen carrying a t-shirt which carried the ‘Pay CM’ Brand. Friday, the Gundlupet police registered an FIR underneath Part 507 (Felony intimidation by nameless communication) of the Indian Penal Code. Saturday, because the padayatra moved forward, Kumar was as soon as once more seen carrying the identical t-shirt when the police arrested him.
A video of the police hitting Kumar and forcing him to take away the t-shirt went viral. Former chief minister and Congress chief Siddaramaiah tweeted, “I condemn the act of rowdyism by the police on our get together employee who was carrying a #PayCM shirt. I urge @CMofKarnataka to right away droop this rowdy police.#PayCM.”
This got here within the backdrop of flexes and hoardings of Bharat Jodo Yatra being torn a day earlier than Rahul Gandhi entered Karnataka.