Seeking an investigation by a sitting High Court judge on the relationship between the BJP and the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), often associated with the now banned Popular Front of India (PFI), leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah on Thursday challenged the State government to come out with specific cases and names of PFI activists that the Congress government withdrew as alleged by the ruling BJP.
“I had written four letters to the BJP government seeking details of cases against PFI and its activists withdrawn during the Congress government. The answer provided by the government does not show any reference to PFI in cases that were withdrawn by the Congress government. Instead, the answer shows that cases against farmers, Dalits, workers and activists of Communist organisations had been withdrawn. Some of the accused in these cases are incidentally Muslims,” Mr. Siddaramaiah said in a detailed press statement in response to the BJP accusation that cases against PFI activists had been withdrawn.
