Karnataka minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Munirathna was on Thursday booked for hate speech after his remarks about Christians.
Munirathna is the horticulture minister in the Basavaraj Bommai-led cabinet.
“Christians are converting people at this moment also. Conversion is maximum in the slums. In places where 1,400 people are there, 400 have been converted. If they come [for conversion] then kick them out or give a complaint at the police station,” the minister said during an interview with a Kannada news channel on 31 March.
The complaint was filed by Manoj Kumar, team lead of the Election Flying Squad-11 of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike.
According to PTI, the Rajarajeshwari Nagar police filed a case against the minister under various sections of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, and under Section 153A of the Indian Penal Code for promoting enmity between different groups.
