Mangalore, Apr 3: Maintaining that the Congress party was committed to taking criminal offences such as assaults on women seriously, Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister B Ramanath Rai said that the accused in connection with assaulting a Congress corporator at Kodikere in Suratkal limits would be arrested, and suitable action would be taken against them.
Addressing mediapersons at a press conference here on Thursday, he said that the accused ought to be arrested for assaulting a woman who had been to the area for canvassing for the party in the coming elections. No one is above the law, he said, also maintaining that the accused in previous cases of moral policing in the district had been arrested and put behind bars.
Referring to the minor clash between two political groups that took place in Nehru Maidan following a panel discussion of representatives from political parties, Mr Rai said that few vested interests were creating negative publicity in this regard and people would reply to this on the Election Day.
Replying to the challenge given by BJP national leader Ananthkumar that Rai should apologise to the people of the district for making false statements about the sitting MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, Mr Rai said that he or the Congress party did not need certification from others. No one can question my honesty and sincerity, he said.
When a reporter asked his take on the allegation made by BJP that Rai had slept during every session in the state assembly, the minister replied that although he might have slept a few times, he had never watched blue films during the assembly proceedings, in reference to two BJP MLAs who were caught watching porn clippings during assembly a couple of years ago.
On the occasion, Mangalore North MLA Moidin Bava alleged that former minister Krishna J Palemar had been involved in making false allegations on him and the Congress party, while he himself had publicly given a clean chit to the three accused who had assaulted the female corporator on a television news channel.
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