Bengaluru, Oct 11: Karnataka BJP president B Y Vijayendra on Sunday warned that the party would lay siege to police stations and district SP offices if the state government continued registering FIRs against party workers for submitting Form-7 under the SIR of electoral rolls.
Speaking to reporters after a BJP core committee meeting held in the presence of state co-in-charge Kasam Venkatesh, Vijayendra said the meeting discussed several key issues, including SIR Form-7, the issuance of permanent residence certificates by the state government, bypolls, and the forthcoming Zilla Panchayat and Taluk Panchayat elections.
He said the committee had also decided to appoint district in-charges and constitute election management committees in every district to prepare the party for the local body polls.
Vijayendra alleged that the Congress government was creating confusion over SIR Form-7 and misusing the police machinery by registering FIRs against BJP workers who had submitted the forms in accordance with Election Commission rules.
He said the Karnataka High Court had also pulled up the state government over the issue.
“Despite this, if the government continues to register FIRs against BJP workers, the party will not remain silent. The core committee has decided to lay siege to the concerned police stations and the offices of district SPs,” he said.
The BJP chief referred to criminal cases registered at various police stations across the state against individuals, particularly BJP workers and sympathisers, accusing them of filing fake Form-7s targeting certain sections of the society. Form-7 is a voter application form for objection to the proposed inclusion/ deletion of a name in the existing electoral roll. (PTI)