The former Karnataka Chief Minister and JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy has hit back Bengaluru South BJP MP Tejasvi Surya on Tuesday over his recent comments on Bengaluru being the "epicentre of terror activities".

Kumaraswamy said that Surya’s comment is a disgrace to the city, which does not belong to militants.

Kumaraswamy also demanded an apology from Surya who is also appointed as president of the BJP’s youth wing. Taking to Twitter Kumaraswamy wrote, “Some people having links with terrorist organisations were caught after the D J Halli incident. Our criticism must be against them… not the home of millions of people… Bengaluru does not belong to militants, it is ours… Bengaluru is our pride.”

Without naming the BJP leader, Kumaraswamy further said, “The insult made by some commentators within the BJP that Bengaluru is a centre of terror activities is a disgrace to the city. I saw in media how CM B S Yeddyurappa struggled to justify such a statement, during a press conference on Monday. This slanderous statement is an insult to the senior BJP leaders as well.”

A day after becoming the president of the BJP’s youth wing, Surya said many terror modules have been busted in Bengaluru, the Silicon Valley of India, in the recent past. The terrorist groups want to use the city as an “incubation centre” for terror activities. Bengaluru has become an epicentre of terror activities, BJP MP Tejasvi Surya claimed on Sunday and said he had requested Union Home Minister Amit Shah to set up a permanent division of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the city.

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