BENGALURU - The BJP Yuva Morcha in Karnataka has filed a complaint against Dinesh Amin Mattu, media advisor to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, for a facebook post in which he questions the Central government's one-day ban on NDTV India.
There is no FIR lodged however. The BJP has said the words that Mattu uses could provoke one community against another, could incite riots and even calls it 'criminal intimidation.'
The complaint is about Mattu's statement -- a reply to someone's comment to his post opposing the ban. The commentator says this is nothing compared to Indira Gandhi's Emergency, "have you forgotten what happened during the Emergency?"
In response, Mattu says, we all know what happened to IndiraGandhi at the end of emergency, do you want that to happen to Modi too? (with a reference to her losing the election).
Mattu has now put up another facebook post, saying the screenshot of only this last bit has been taken out of context, and all interpretations being ascribed to this statement.
BJP MLA M N Vijayakumar, who was part of the delegation which filed this complaint, says there is no FIR registered as the police are under "pressure" from the ruling party. They have quoted IPC sections that make it a cognisable offence -- section 505 (statement pitting one community against another) and 153 (wanton provocation to incite riot), besides section 506 (criminal intimidation).
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