BJP complains against Karnataka minister S Tangadagi for remark involving Modi

The BJP has filed a complaint with the Election Commission (EC) against Karnataka minister Shivaraj S Tangadagi for making a controversial remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Congress leader said at an election rally that students who raise “Modi, Modi” slogans should be slapped.

“PM Modi promised two crore jobs. Did he give it? … They (the BJP) are now coming with their election campaign. With what face are they seeking votes? If youths ask for employment, they (BJP) ask them to sell pakoda. They must be ashamed. If any student or youth still says ‘Modi, Modi’, they should be slapped,” he said at the rally in Karnataka’s Koppal.

The BJP has lodged a complaint with the EC, alleging that the Congress leader has violated the model code of conduct, and sought that he be barred from election campaigning.

Amit Malviya reacts

Reacting to Tangadagi’s remark, BJP leader Amit Malviya wrote in X that no political party that has targeted the youth has survived.

“Congress minister Shivaraj Tangadagi, who is the Minister of Culture in the Karnataka government, asks students, who chant slogans in favour of PM Modi, to be slapped… Just because Young India has rejected Rahul Gandhi, again and again, and wants PM Modi to lead the country, Congress will assault them? This is shameful. The contrast can’t be more obvious, with Prime Minister Modi investing in Young India and Rahul Gandhi’s Congress wanting to slap them,” Malviya said in the post.

“No political party, which has targeted the Youth, ever survived. The Young carry our collective aspiration and are entrusted with shaping the destiny of our nation,” he added.