Taking exception to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s remarks against Bharatiya Janata Party National President Amit Shah, BJP State president B.S. Yeddyurappa has threatened to file a defamation case against him if he fails to apologise within three days.
Addressing a Congress workers’ meeting recently in Hassan, the Chief Minister had remarked that Mr. Amit Shah is an accused in a murder case in Gujarat and would have been in jail if the NDA had not come to power at the Centre. Mr. Yeddyurappa told reporters in Bengaluru that the Supreme Court had already cleared Mr. Shah in the above case. It was irresponsible on the part of the Chief Minister to make such remarks, he maintained.
He said he would give three days for Mr. Siddaramaiah to apologise, failing which he would initiate legal action.
Mr. Yeddyurappa, who had food at the houses of Dalits in various parts of the State during his recently concluded Jana Sampark Abhiyan , said he would reciprocate their gesture by hosting them at his residence in Bengaluru.
The BJP State President has decided to organise a lunch for 66 Dalit/backward classes families who offered food to him during his 36-day campaign covering 27 districts.
