Mangaluru, May 9: City-based rationalist and activist Narendra Nayak has written an open letter to Vedavyas Kamath, the BJP candidate of Mangaluru City South constituency for May 12 Karnataka assembly polls, seeking the latter’s reply for five questions.
Here is the full text of the open letter:
To
Vedavyas Kamath,
BJP’s MLA candidate
Mangalore City South
This open letter is being addressed to you (Vedavyas Kamath) and I do expect an answer in the media for the questions I have raised. Your close friend and associate Naresh Shenoy has been accused No. 1 in the murder case of BJP member and RTI activist Vinayak Baliga. However, despite being the president of the local unit of the party, you have not raised your voice against this coldblooded murder. Your silence has given rise to many suspicions.
When your friend Naresh Shenoy was absconding and on the run from the police for nearly three months it was noticed by many that you too were out of circulation and doubts were expressed about your whereabouts.
At that time an advertisement appeared on the page 8 of Udayavani Kannada daily (June 8, 2016) about your foreign trip without mentioning any dates of travel but naming the destinations as Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore. I do hope you have had a good time there.
Strangely, the advertisement was inserted by one Mohammad Al-Kumari, Chairman of Ontime Money Exchange, Dubai, Bahrain. Well, a search on Google did not show any results for this and hence I had requested some friends in Bahrain and Dubai to look for the same. But they also could not find anything. While Dubai is a part of UAE, Bahrain is a separate country. I fail to understand how the two got separated by a comma! We would like you to kindly confirm as to who this well-wisher of yours was.
While I do not want to cast any aspersions on any community like your party does, it would be fair to demand clear answers to the following questions from our MLA aspirant:
1. Who is Mohammad Al-Kumari and what is nature of the firm that he is the chairman of?
2. Is there a possibility that Mohammad Al-Kumari is a Pakistani, a member of any terror outfits like Al Qaeda, ISIS (as you and your party are likely to question any of us and allege funding by outside sources).
3. Please let us also know whether the advertisement was paid for in foreign currency.
4. Since it is claimed that you were travelling to the above mentioned places, though the dates have not been mentioned it would be very kind of you to produce the pages of your passport with evidence that you were really going to these places at that time!
5. If the advertisement is false you could kindly let the voters know as to what action you would propose to take on the matter.
A photo of the controversial advertisement appeared on Udayavani Kannada daily on June 8, 2016.
Naresh Shenoy, founder of NaMo Brigade and a close friend of Managaluru City South BJP candidate Vedavyas Kamath with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a programme Mangaluru (File photo). Shenoy is the prime accused in RTI activist and BJP worker Vinayak Baliga murder case.
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