CM must apologise for Maddur clash: BJP

Congress's appeasement politics is to blame: BJP

- NT Correspondent

Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly R Ashoka on Monday demanded that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah apologise to the people of the state over the communal violence in Maddur town during a Ganesha immersion procession.

The BJP leader alleged that the Congress government's appeasement politics has emboldened miscreants and created a "peculiar situation" where Hindus were treated as "second-class citizens."

"Chief Minister Siddaramaiah should tender an apology for insulting Goddess Chamundeshwari, Dharmasthala and now for the Maddur incident," he demanded.

Ashoka told reporters in Bengaluru that the stone-pelting on the Ganesha procession in Maddur on September 7 was not an isolated incident but a larger plan.