KS Eshwarappa made the remarks throughout a BJP occasion at Karnataka’s Davangere.

Bengaluru:

Senior BJP chief KS Eshwarappa has as soon as once more stirred a row, calling for a regulation that permits the killing of Congress MP DK Suresh and MLA Vinay Kulkarni. Calling the 2 leaders “traitors”, Mr Eshwarappa claimed that they need to divide India into items.

“If they try to convey such statements again, through such public meetings, I would like to communicate to Narendra Modi ji that DK Suresh and Vinay Kulkarni are traitors to this country. They seemingly desire to divide the nation into pieces. I suggest enacting a law where they can be shot and killed,” Mr Eshwarappa stated in the course of the swearing-in ceremony of the brand new Karnataka BJP president and office-bearers in Davangere district.

The 75-year-old’s speech has stirred a wave of criticism from varied quarters, with many questioning the appropriateness of such remarks.

“The Bengaluru Police would have arrested me if I had said that KS Eshwarappa should be beaten to death in public, but no action will be taken against Eshwarappa for calling the killing of DK Suresh. Law is indeed based on Power,” activist Kavitha Reddy stated on X (previously Twitter).

Mr Eshwarappa’s controversial assertion comes a day after he termed the Karnataka authorities’s protest in Delhi over “unfair allocation of funds” a marketing campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. He alleged that the Congress authorities was launching its marketing campaign by spending tax payer’s cash.