The BJP on Thursday took exception to the inclusion of Rajya Sabha member Imran Pratapgarhi withinside the listing of forty supermegacelebrity campaigners of the Congress for the imminent Karnataka Assembly elections, calling him an “anti-countrywide”.
Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers` Welfare and BJP’s Karnataka Election Management Committee Convener Shobha Karandlaje sought to understand the “connection” among Congress and gangster-baby-kisser Atiq Ahmad who become lately shot useless in Uttar Pradesh.
She alleged that Pratapgarhi, a poet-cum-baby-kisser, is a near buddy of Ahmad and used to name the gangster as his “guru” and brother. He used to jot down poetry in reward of Ahmed, who used to participate in his ‘mushaira’ (a meeting wherein poets recite Urdu poetry), Karandlaje said.
Defending the party’s move, Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh questioned why this query has emerged.
“Imran Pratapgarhi is the chairman of our party’s minority mobileular and he might be coming. What is incorrect with that? We aren’t calling the person that has devoted against the law or is at the back of the bars,” Vallabh advised PTI.
BJP’s Karandlaje asserted that someone who ought to had been arrested for status in guide of Atiq Ahmed has come to be the supermegacelebrity campaigner for Congress.
“Despite understanding that Imran Pratapgarhi become concerned in ‘anti-countrywide activities’, you (Congress) ship him to the Rajya Sabha and rent him as Karnataka’s supermegacelebrity campaigner,” she said, lashing out on the competition party, which launched its listing of supermegacelebrity campaigners on Wednesday.
BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi alleged that the Congress is “permitting the access of negative factors and fundamentalists”.
“Imran Pratapgarhi used to jot down poetry praising Atiq. Atiq too attended Pratapgarhi’s poetry concerts. Imran’s poems laud anti-nationals, anti-socials and instigated Muslims in opposition to Hindus,” Trivedi claimed.
The ruling BJP is combating the Assembly polls in opposition to its main rival Congress even as the JD(S) is likewise an critical participant withinside the state.
Karnataka will vote in a unmarried segment on May 10 and the effects are scheduled to be out on May 13
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