Karnataka BJP accused of ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogan

Bengaluru-based fact-checker MD Zubair has crossed into ‘Pakistan’ Hail (prolonged) slogan controversy, and listed 22 previous instances when such claims by BJP leaders were proven false after verification by the police. He has endorsed the list with details from across the country to show how the slogans ofQazi Saheb Zindabad‘, ‘Sabir Saheb Hail‘ or ‘Aziz’ sir zindabad‘ was distorted to say ‘Pakistan’ HailSlogans were raised.

Karnataka Congress has denied the allegation that ‘Pakistan.’ HailThe slogan was raised outside the Vidhan Sabha on Tuesday, with Congress leader and IT Minister Priyank Kharge saying in an ex-post that the Congress MP had shouted ‘Pakistan’. Hail‘The people present in Vidhana Soudha do not remain silent.

Kharge wrote in Kannada that if such a slogan had actually been raised, some people and at least the journalists present would have reacted and protested. Surely the patriotism of journalists must have been awakened? But in the video, the behavior of the crowd does not change and no one is seen reacting, he observed.

What is serious in the latest controversy that broke out on Tuesday evening are the immediate reactions of Union ministers condemning the Congress and Syed Naseer Hussain, who was elected to the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday for his second term as MP. Will the minister apologize if the forensic investigation proves the allegations to be false?

Hussain, who was first elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2018, has an MPhil and PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University.