Addressing a protest in connection with the recent attacks on a mobile shop owner in Bengaluru, Karandlaje had said, “People from Tamil Nadu come here, get trained and plant bombs here.They placed a bomb in the cafe.”
Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin also reacted to the BJP leader’s remarks, calling it a ‘reckless statement’ and said that such assertions could only be made by someone with direct involvement or detailed knowledge of the ongoing investigation into the Rameshwaram cafe blast.
“One must either be an NIA official or closely linked to the Rameshwaram Cafe Blast to make such claims. Clearly, she (Shobha) lacks the authority for such assertions,” he said, while adding that Tamilians and Kannadigas alike will reject ‘divisive rhetoric of BJP.’
Stalin said that everyone in BJP, from PM to cadres, should stop engaging in dirty divisive politics.
“ECI must take note of this hate speech and initiate stringent action immediately,” Stalin said.
Dubbing Shobha’s comments as venomous, sports minister Udhayanidhi asked, “How the BJP minister arrived at such an outrageous claim when NIA is still investigating the Rameshwaram cafe blast case.”
