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Karnataka deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of “playing politics” over the Dharmasthala “multiple murders and burials” case.
AS reported by PTI, He was responding to BJP’s “Dharmasthala Chalo” rally, in which party members travelled in several vehicles to the temple town protesting against what they call a smear campaign against Hindu temples and traditions.
“BJP did not speak anything initially, now all of them are speaking. They should have spoken at the beginning. Now those in BJP are engaging in politics, nothing else. They are going there (Dharmasthala) for the sake of politics,” the deputy CM said in response to a question.
Speaking to reporters , he said the BJP thinks Hindutva is their property. “But, it belongs to no one. It is each individual’s devotion, feeling and faith.”
“…Why didn’t they speak when the complaint was lodged — and say it is wrong?” he asked.
The SIT formed by the state government is probing charges of multiple murders, rapes, and burials across different places in Dharmasthala, over the past two decades
The complainant-witness, a former sanitation worker whose identity has been withheld, has claimed that he worked in Dharmasthala between 1995 and 2014, and that he was forced to bury a number of bodies, including those of women and minors.
