From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore

Bangalore, May 31: Seizing on the opportunity to fish in troubled waters with City policemen involved in a public spat among themselves over a senior police officer being caught red-handed taking objectionable pictures of a girl in a Café Coffee Day outlet, the opposition BJP entered the scene and demanded the resignation of the State Home Minister K J George.

BJP Opposition leader in the State assembly and former chief minister Jagadish Shettar, who led a delegation to meet Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj, alleged that George had lost control of the sensitive police department with senior police officers publicly fighting against each other.

Shettar contended that the Home Minister has totally failed in controlling the Law and order situation in the State in the wake of shameful public spat of top police echelon in the city.

The State is witnessing a very disturbing and shameful incident of the top police echelon having a public spat over the last four days, the BJP said and asked the Governor to personally intervene as both Chief Minister and Home Minister have remained mute spectators to this bizarre drama.

In a memorandum submitted to Governor H R Bhardwaj following open display of friction in the city police top brass, the BJP asked the Governor to step in.

The memorandum signed by former Chief Minister and leader of opposition in the assembly Jagadish Shettar and former Deputy Chief Minister R Ashoka comes in the wake of the unseemly fight in the police top brass after a senior IPS officer P Ravindranath, was accused of clicking objectionable pictures of a woman in a coffee shop.

Ravindranath, who was transferred from the post of Additional DGP of Karnataka State Reserve Police, following the woman’s complaint on Thursday, has filed a complaint against city police chief Raghavendra Auradkar accusing him of atrocity under the SC/ST Act.

Stating that the Home Minister, who should have intervened in the matter, remained a mute spectator even while the reputation of the police is auctioned in public by the senior officers, the letter said the State machinery has come to a grinding halt, the BJP said and pointed out that the Chief Minister and the Home Minister have completely lost control over the department,.

''The State is witnessing a breakdown of constitutional machinery,’’ the memorandum alleged.

It also demanded an impartial probe into alleged incident involving Ravindranath.

''The Home Minister has lost control over the Department and as such he ceases to have moral authority to continue in office and we, therefore, demand immediate removal of Home Minister K J George,” the memorandum said.

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