JAIPUR: A Bharatiya Janata Party legislator from Rajasthan has been booked for a provocative speech against a particular minority community as the state continues to see an uptick in coronavirus cases,
Madan Dilawar, the MLA from Ramganjmandi constituency in Kota district, on Friday under relevant sections of the IPC, the Disaster Management Act and the Epidemic Diseases Act, Deputy Superintendent of Police Amrita Duhan said on Saturday.
The state’s CB-CID will investigate the case because it pertains to an elected representative.
A resident of Teachers’ Colony in the city lodged a complaint against the MLA for his provocative message made in a video speech.
Dilawar also allegedly issued a press note on April 15 along with the video message and accused the Congress government in the state of favouring a particular community in the coronavirus outbreak for vote bank politics.
The MLA is also accused of inviting people to his residence, disregarding social distancing norms, for enlisting names for supply of ration material.
Two more people died of coronavirus during treatment at a state-run hospital in Jaipur, pushing the death toll due to the virus in Rajasthan to 19 on Saturday, news agency quoted an official as having said.
The news agency also said 41 people tested positive for coronavirus in Rajasthan on Saturday, taking the state tally to 1,270.