Once the pride of India’s tech landscape, Karnataka is now being mocked as a ‘Drugs Park’ by BJP, which holds the Congress government squarely responsible for the alarming rise in narcotics activities. The accusation flew from state BJP general secretary V. Sunil Kumar’s lips during an fiery assembly session Thursday, debating the governor’s address.
Kumar detailed the ignominy: Factories busted by Maharashtra Police in CM Siddaramaiah’s Mysuru and by Delhi Police in Bengaluru. ‘Our IT hub reduced to this?’ he asked, quoting the CM’s pointed query to police chiefs about their intelligence gaps.
He slammed the regime for breeding impunity among criminals and party loyalists. ‘Drug mafias find Karnataka fertile; our image suffers globally,’ Kumar charged. Law enforcement, he said, operates on ‘selective lines’ – one for the masses, another for Congress elite.
A litany of lapses followed: Ignoring opposition arrests in Kalaburagi while pouncing on BJP’s C.T. Ravi. 14 days to act on Kolar threats by a Congress leader to a woman official. A Congress MLA’s son menacing officials in Shivamogga. JD(S) MLA’s sand mafia threats and assaults on BJP legislator S. Suresh Kumar’s home.
With 30 months of alleged mismanagement, Kumar warned of deepening crisis. The BJP positions itself as the antidote, pushing for robust policing and justice to reclaim Karnataka’s stature as an IT beacon, not a crime capital.