Bengaluru, Dec. 20 -- The Congress-led Karnataka government's commitment to its newly enacted Hate Speech and Hate Crimes Prevention law came under sharp scrutiny on Saturday after senior BJP leader Govind Karjol demanded that the first case under the legislation be registered against minister Priyank Kharge.
Speaking to reporters, Karjol alleged that Kharge had used derogatory and unparliamentary language against union Home Minister Amit Shah, contending that the remarks amounted to hate speech under the very law the government had passed a day earlier.
He said failure to act against its own minister would expose the law as "selective and politically motivated".
"The test of any law lies in its impartial enforcement. If this law has mea...