Comments on Dalits: BJP MLA’s arrest leaves party in tight spot
Munirathna Naidu has been taken into custody by the City Police after they formally arrested him on Saturday on charges of hurling slurs on a member of the SC community and demanding bribes from the municipal contractor.
The police intercepted his vehicle on the Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh border district of Kolar as he tried to leave the state on Saturday and arrested him after the Bengaluru police registered two FIRs against him.
He was a Congress lawmaker earlier, who switched over to the BJP in 2019 along with other Congress and JDS lawmakers, helping the BJP form the government.
Trouble for the 60-year old BJP lawmaker began after audio-tapes containing an alleged conversation between him and Cheluvaraju, a contractor, emerged in which a person, alleged as the BJP leader, could be heard using abusive language against the SC community while pressing for his dues of his share of bribes. He identifies the contractor by his community (Vokkaliga) and makes obscene references to his wife and mother.
The SC community leader referred to in the conversation Velu Naikar filed a police complaint under the SC/ST Atrocities Act while the contractor lodged his complaint under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
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