Karnataka cops lodge FIR against BJP's Nadda, Malviya on Congress' complaint over intimidation of SC, ST members

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

FIR has been lodged against BJP national president JP Nadda, Karnataka state BJP president BY Vijayendra, BJP social media in-charge Amit Malviya after Congress filed a complaint over BJP Karnataka's social media post allegedly intimidating members of SC, ST community.

Congress had earlier filed a complaint against BJP officials over a video posted by BJP Karnataka on their social media for allegedly intimidating members of Schedule caste or tribe to not vote for a particular candidate with an intention to create feelings of enmity, hatred and ill-will against members of SC/ST community.

BJP was also accused of violating model code of conduct by using animated video of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah by portraying Congress party as favouring a particular religion and suppressing members of SC/ST and OBC community.

A day before, the official X handle of BJP Karnataka had posted an animated video with the caption «Beware… Beware… Beware..!» in Kannada. The video showed caricatures of Rahul Gandhi and Siddaramaiah placing an egg with «Muslims» written on it in a nest along with three eggs marked as «SC, ST and OBC.»

The video further showed the caricature of Rahul Gandhi feeding «funds» only to the bird that hatched out of the «Muslim» egg.