A summons from the Enforcement Directorate on Diwali day: an
action against 'uttering filter'
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| Girish Karnad file photo |
The dissenters are being
tormented under the latent proceedings; barely 3 days after the Bihar Assembly
results.
The violence hit the streets
of Karnataka on the Tipu Sultan anniversary which the state government
organized to celebrate on 20 November 2015.
The death threat passed on
social media to Girish Karnad who made remarks, "If Tipu had been a Hindu
and not Muslim, he would have attained the position in Karnataka that Shivaji
Maharaj enjoys in Maharashtra.” and Supporting the Karnataka governments Tipu
Sultan Jayanti celebrations with a suggestion that Bengaluru Kempegowda
International airport should be renamed after the ‘Tiger of Mysore' is weighed
up as the crime.
Today, Karnad is living under heavy police security after fringe groups
threatened retaliation. Two police complaints have been lodged against
him while an unknown person has issued death threat. Though Karnad has apologised for his statements, the protests
haven't stopped.
Minister Nitin Gadkari said that action should be taken against
the old BJP guard. "The Bihar debacle is the collective responsibility of
the party and not of any individual. I have told party chief Shah to initiate
stringent action against those making irresponsible statements and causing
damage to the party's image," Gadkari said.
"We are not a party of mother-son, father-son. Neither
are we a party of a specific family. The BJP is a party of cadres. It's not a
party of any leader. When we win, the party wins and when we lose, the party
gets defeated," Gadkari told reporters.
Shahrukh Khan who is one of the very few Bollywood actors to
speak out against intolerance received a summons from the Enforcement
Directorate on Diwali day. This came after Khan spoke out against the growing
atmosphere of intolerance against the country, and attracted anger on the
social media. Leaders from the BJP and its affiliates attacked him as well,
saying he should go to Pakistan.
Khan was grilled for over four hours at the ED’s regional
headquarters in South Mumbai on the t sale of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) team
shares at allegedly lower prices to a Mauritius based company in 2009. Khan
reportedly told the officials that in 2009, the IPL and KKR were not profit
making ventures and accordingly they estimated the share prices at that point
of time. He denied any wrongdoing in the process and stated that valuation of
shares increased afterwards.
Sources said the agency, after this questioning, is expected to issue a
final show-cause notice by December or early next year under FEMA in the
probe involving Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and related entities.
A senior opposition leader, not willing to be quoted at this
point saying, he expressed, “The RSS and BJP activists are hellbent how to
promote the Hindutva agenda regardless of any ethos.”
