On Monday morning in Bengaluru, Congress staff carried out ‘puja’ and sprayed cow urine outside the Karnataka Assembly building. Before the newly elected Congress administration convened its first session, party employees said they were ‘purifying’ the building after the corrupt BJP’s rule ended.
DK Shivakumar, the top of the Congress in Karnataka, who took workplace because the state’s deputy chief minister on May 20, had steered in January of this 12 months that cow urine must be used to “cleanse” the Vidhana Soudha (Assembly). Shivakumar claimed that “corruption during the BJP’s rule polluted the Assembly.”
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In a viral video, Congress staff are proven carrying a bucket that seems to be crammed with cow pee and scattering the contents with leaves which were dipped within the substance.
ANI tweeted, “Congress workers sprinkle cow urine and perform Pooja at the State Assembly in Bengaluru. They said that they are ‘purifying’ Vidhana Soudha.”
#WATCH | Bengaluru: Congress staff sprinkle cow urine and carry out Pooja on the State Assembly in Bengaluru. They stated that they’re ‘purifying’ Vidhana Soudha. pic.twitter.com/SWapoH7vOL
— ANI (@ANI) May 22, 2023
“We will come up with some details to clean the Vidhan Soudha. I also have some ganjala (cow urine) for purification…,” Shivakumar had stated.
Days earlier than the election on May 5, the Karnataka Congress got here up with a bilingual “corruption rate card” that detailed the “scams” perpetrated by the earlier BJP administration. The erstwhile Opposition occasion claimed that the state’s ruling BJP administration looted Rs 1,50,000 crore after they had been in workplace, and the “corruption rate card” was revealed in each English and Kannada.
Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot additionally delivered oaths to newly elected lawmakers in the course of the first session of the brand new Karnataka Assembly, which is ready to run out on Wednesday. Senior Congress chief RV Deshpande was additionally chosen because the meeting’s new pro-tem speaker.
“We are calling the Assembly session for 3 days – Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. We are requesting the governor – as a result of the brand new Assembly needs to be constituted earlier than May 24. Senior-most MLA RV Deshpande has been requested to be the Protem Speaker… to manage oaths to MLAs,” stated Siddaramaiah.
On Saturday, Siddaramaiah was sworn in as CM of Karnataka and DK Shivakumar was sworn in as Deputy CM.
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