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Congress seeks FIRs against Amit Shah for false claims, V. Somanna for offering bribe to rival candidate in Karnataka Assembly elections

Amit Shah Assembly Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party V Somanna the Indian National Congress Housing KPCC

Congress leaders petitioned the police against Union Home Minister Amit Shah for allegedly saying that ‘if the Indian National Congress wins the upcoming elections, then the entire state of Karnataka will be afflicted with communal riots’, and thereby attempting to disrupt communal harmony in the State.

The Congress leaders requested that ‘an urgent and immediate FIR be lodged against Mr Amit Shah and the other individuals for committing offences’.

In the complaint to the High Ground police in Bengaluru on April 27, Congress general secretary in-charge of Karnataka Randeep Singh Surjewala, KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar and former KPCC president G. Parameshwara accused BJP leaders of making provocative statements, promoting enmity, hatred and ill-will between groups and classes, at a rally in Vijayapura and other locations in Karnataka on April 25.

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