From Our Special Correspondent
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Bengaluru, May 21: The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President D K Shivakumar has urged Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa to withdraw a FIR registered against Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi by Sagar Police of Shivamogga district in Karnataka.
The FIR has been registered on a charge that Gandhi has tweeted stating that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been misusing PM Cares Fund.
A Congress delegation led by KPCC president designate D K Shivakumar called on the Chief Minister in Bengaluru on Thursday and demanded immediate steps for withdrawing the FIR and suspend the sub-inspector who registered the FIR against Gandhi.
Sonia Gandhi
Earlier, in a letter to the Chief Minister, Shivakumar claimed that based on a complaint by BJP activist and advocate Praveen Kumar, Sagar police have registered FIR against Gandhi under the provisions of the Indian Penal Code.
The complainant has filed this complaint with a political motive and false information on Gandhi’s tweet, Shivakumar claimed.
Gandhi, Congress president and MP, had tweeted with the intention of forcing the prime minister to use the PM Cares Fund for the welfare of the people.
However, this was misinterpreted by the BJP leadership and it instigated Praveen Kumar to file this complaint against Gandhi based on false information without examining its truthfulness, the State Congress leader said.
“This is blatant misuse of the process of law with an intention to snub the right to healthy criticism,’’ Shivakumar said.
Coming in the wake of the controversy over AICC General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is the Congress President’s daughter, on arranging buses for migrant workers by offering 1000 buses and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath raising objections and criticizing the Congress party, the FIR issue against Sonia Gandhi is bound to snowball into a major issue and lead to conflicts between the Congress-led Opposition parties and the Modi government.