Priyank Kharge Slams BJP's Nationalism Certificates

Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge on Wednesday questioned the basis on which BJP leaders and the ABVP were describing jailed activist Umar Khalid as “anti-national”, saying that it was for the court, and not political parties, to decide whether a person was guilty of the charges against him.

Reacting to the controversy over a proposed screening of a documentary on Khalid at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), and KPCC president B.K.



Hariprasad’s remarks describing Khalid as a nationalist, Kharge questioned why the trial in the case had not progressed despite Khalid having been in jail for years.

“Who has declared Mr Umar Khalid anti-national? Has any court said that? BJP is telling that. Tomorrow BJP will tell you are anti national. Should we believe that? Why are they not bringing up the trail? It has been so many years he is in jail,” Kharge told reporters while replying to the questions.