India News: PM Modi may have sparked a row by accusing Congress of snatching reservation from OBCs and SC/STs to give it to Muslims, but in Karnataka, which he ci.
Thangadagi, while addressing partymen in Koppal Lok Sabha constituency on Sunday, asked his partymen to give a tight slap on the face if any youth or student uttered the name, Modi. His remarks created a furor and widespread condemnation on social media. The Minister later clarified it was only a way of talking in his part of Karnataka, and he did not literally mean it.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has filed a complaint against Karnataka minister S Tangadagi for his remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Congress leader sparked a row when he said that students who raise "Modi" slogans should be slapped.
The Kannada & Culture Minister, while campaigning for the party in Koppal Lok Sabha seat on Sunday, said the PM promised to create 20 million jobs a year, and if he had walked the talk, the country would have had 200 million new jobs in the past 10 years. But the PM was now asking the unemployed youth to go and sell Pakoras, the minister said, and added if they still uttered the name Modi, they deserve a slap.