Mangaluru, Jan 7: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has expressed deep condolences to the family members of Basheer, who succumbed to his injuries on Sunday four days after he was attacked by hatemongers in the city.
Interacting with reporters on arrival at the helipad in Belthangady on the outskirts of the city to launch a few development projects, the CM said that the murders of Deepak Rao and Basheer shocked him.
"Bashir’s death is unfortunate and affront to sensibilities of a literate district such as Dakshina Kannada," CM said, slamming the insinuations of the BJP that he is greeted with dead body of a Hindu worker at places where he went as part of Nava Karnataka nirmana Yatra, starting with Honnavar in Uttara Kannada district.
"Is Bashir a Hindu?," CM quipped lashing out at forces who he said are indulging in petty politicking over dead bodies of innocents. "This is akin to adding salt to wounds," he said.
The CM said that law will take its own course with regard to murders of Deepak and Bashir. “The police have already carried out arrests in both these incidents. People across the state in general and DK district in particular must put a premium on maintaining communal harmony,” he said, adding people of a literate district known for their intellect must take the lead.
Decrying deaths of innocents, CM said that indulging in petty politics over dead bodies is a disgrace. “People with faith in humanity will not resort to such dastardly acts,” he taunted BJP obliquely.
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