Bengaluru police arrested Hindutva activist Puneeth Karehalli on Thursday for his derogatory publish in opposition to Karnataka minister Zameer Ahmed Khan. Khan’s supporter filed a grievance in Bengaluru’s Chamarajanagar police station in opposition to Karehalli, and an FIR was registered.
The feedback of Zameer Ahmed Khan sparked an argument throughout the state as many opposition leaders referred to as the minister a racist.
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Through the by-election marketing campaign in Karnataka’s Channapatna, Zameer Ahmed Khan referred to as union minister Kumaraswamy ‘Kaalia’, and Karehalli wrote a derogatory publish on Fb in opposition to the previous in response to his feedback.
Whereas supporting CP Yogeshwara, the Congress candidate in Channapatna, Zameer Ahmed Khan, stated, “Due to some differences in our Congress party, Yogeshwara contested as an independent candidate earlier. Yogeshwara had no option but to join the BJP. He was not ready to join the JD(S) because ‘Kaalia Kumaraswamy’ was more dangerous than the BJP. Yogeshwara has returned to his home, and he will be an MLA once again.”
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The social gathering additionally requested the color of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, ministers H C Mahadevappa, Satish Jarakiholi, Priyank Kharge and Ok H Muniyappa.
Union minister Kiren Rijiju, too, condemned Khan’s feedback and stated, “I strongly deplore Congress Minister Zameer Ahmed calling Union Minister & Ex CM of Karnataka Sh. Kumaraswamy as ‘Kaalia Kumaraswamy’. This is a racist remark, the same as Rahul Gandhi’s adviser calling South Indians look like Africans, North East as Chinese, North Indians as Arabs.”
Zameer Khan apologizes
In the meantime, Khan expressed his clarification for making such feedback in opposition to Kumaraswamy and stated that it got here out of his affection in the direction of the union minister. He stated, “If I had called him using such a word for the first time, I would have apologised. With affection, he used to call me ‘Kulla’ (dwarf), and I used to call him Kariyanna (black brother). If he or anyone else is still pained by it, I apologise. What is there in that?”