Complaint files against Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai, Police Refused to FIR

A Communist Party of India (CPI) leader and activist Manaiah from Karnataka has lodged a complaint against chief minister CM Basavaraj Bommai and other BJP ministers, MLAs in connection with the presentation of the anti-conversion bill. Polie refused to file a FIR.

The complaints have been filed against CM Basavaraj Bommai, state home minister Araga Jnanendra, speaker Vishveshwara Hegde Kageri and all BJP MLAs in connection with the tabling of the anti-conversion bill. Manaiah said that the BJP government while tabling the anti-conversion bill has shown the members of the SC/ST community in poor light.

He said the bill states that people from SC/ST communities convert for allurements, free school and college facilities. The complainant has asked for registration of the case against all of them under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.

The Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 202 is aimed at preventing conversion by means of allurement, coercion, force or fraudulent means. Social activist R Manasayya has approached the police seeking to file a complaint against Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, Speaker, and the state Home Minister accusing them of painting the people from the scheduled caste and scheduled tribe communities in poor light in the Assembly.

However, the police have refused to file a FIR, prompting the activist to consider going to court. Speaking to media, the police said that they could not register the complaint since the incident happened inside the state Assembly. BJP leaders, on the floor of the Assembly, showed people from the scheduled caste and scheduled tribe in a poor light while debating the contentious anti-conversion Bill, the activist alleged.

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The people from the category have been described as beggars and vagabonds who are converted to Christianity after being lured with money, he wrote in his complaint copy. The activist said he will move the court after gathering all relevant proceedings of the House. Meanwhile, Karnataka Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj KS Eshwarappa said the Bill is the agenda of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh the ideological mentor of the BJP.