Bengaluru, Oct 1: BJP’s youth wing supremo and Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya has claimed that Congress and Social Democratic Party of India are against the establishment of NIA unit in Bengaluru as it will harm them.
Speaking to media persons, he strongly defended his ‘epicentre of terror’ remark, and said that it was triggered by the arrest of an alleged ISIS terrorist in Basavangudi and the recent DJ Halli violence.
Surya clarified saying that he meant to say that he did not want Bengaluru to be a terror hub. DJ Halli riots in which police stations were torched, he said, made his ‘blood boil’.
He said that a request for an NIA unit was made to protect the city. “There is a match-fixing between the Congress and the SDPI. They are opposing NIA because it will affect their politics,” the MP said.
On apology demanded by JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy, he referred to the recent riots asking why none of the JD(S) leaders visited MLA Akhanda Srinivasmurthy, who was formerly with them. “They fear that they will lose votes of another community if they back Srinivasmurthy, who is a Dalit,” he added.
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