Daijiworld Media Network – Bengaluru (DC)
Bengaluru, May 1: The BJP lodged a complaint with the election commission against national award winning actor Prakash Rai and Gujarat Vadgam MLA Jignesh Mevani for 'having used defamatory and abusive language' against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP's chief ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa.
On April 29 addressing a gathering Mevani had said that Modi was a corporate salesman and a thief. He also alleged that Modi has looted the country.
In the complaint the Karnataka BJP has taken strong offence to the kind of language being used by Prakash Rai and Mevani and have urged the election commission to take against the both.
Prakash Rai and Jignesh Mevani
The BJP has also sought action against senior politician A K Subbaiah who made a statement that Yeddyurappa and his lover will run away from Karnataka after the assembly elections.
The BJP has also urged election commission not to allow Rai and Mevani to hold any public rallies in Karnataka anymore.
Jignesh Mevani has been campaigning in Karnataka for the last few days against the BJP ahead of assembly polls due on May 12.