BJP seeks NIA probe into attacks on party/RSS activists

Flagging the "murderous" attacks by "Jihadi forces" on BJP and RSS activists in Congress-ruled Karnataka, a state BJP delegation today asked Home Minister Rajnath Singh to order an NIA probe into the incidents.
"The perpetrators of the crime belong to PFI (Popular Front of India), SDPI (Socialist Democratic Party of India) and KFD (Karnataka Forum for Dignity). These organisations have roots in Kerala," the delegation said in a memorandum submitted to Singh in New Delhi today.
Charging that it was beyond the capacity and reach of the state police to expose the "conspirators and handlers", the memorandum said if they and their "overground supporters" were to be exposed, "it is imperative that these 17 murders have to be handed over to National Investigation Agency."

The memorandum submitted by the delegation led by state BJP president B S Yeddyurappa and Union Minister Ananth Kumar comprised opposition leader in the Assembly Jagadish shettar, MPs Prahlad Joshi, Shobha Karandlaje and Bhagavanth Khuba and MLAs Aravinda Limbavali, C T Ravi and Aravinda Belladh.
Giving the list of murders, it said "what is atrocious" on part of the Congress government was that they had been attributed to personal rivalry, thus "trivialising" the deaths of nationalist activists and allowing the criminals to escape the clutches of law.
"The hands of police are tied and they are forced to dance to the tune of their political boss," it said.

The memorandum said besides 17 murders, there had been as many as six attempts to murder BJP/RSS activists, adding, "we fear that Karnataka is fast turning into Kerala, where political and ideological murders are the order of the day."

It further alleged that the Congress government had made all preparations to engineer riots during Tipu Jayanti celebrations and blame BJP and Sangh pariwar for it.
BJP has been opposing the celebrations of "Tipu Jayanti" tomorrow with Yeddyurappa asking the party cadre to scale up the protests against it and observe November 10 as a "black day" and court arrest.
Tipu Jayanti, slated to be celebrated across the state, is being observed since last year following a Congress government decision, which had triggered a major row and caused violence in Kodagu district in November last.