State's Home Minister G Parameshwara said the proposed legislation was not driven by political vendetta but was aimed at curbing hate speech and hate crimes.
The Karnataka Legislative Assembly on Thursday passed the Hate Speech and Hate Crimes Prevention Bill, 2025, to curb acts that promote enmity, hatred, and disharmony among individuals and communities.
The Karnataka Legislative Assembly on Thursday passed the Hate Speech and Hate Crimes Prevention Bill, 2025, to curb acts that promote enmity, hatred, and disharmony among individuals and communities.
Following Bharatiya Janata Party's opposition to the Hate Speech and Hate Crimes Prevention Bill, 2025, Karnataka minister Priyank Kharge on Thursday slammed the BJP and said that they would not allow Karnataka to be their laboratory of hate.
Defining hate speech, Parameshwara said it refers to "the communication of hate speech by making, publishing, or circulating, or any act of promoting, propagating, inciting, abetting, or attempting such hate speech to cause disharmony or feelings of enmity, hatred, or ill-will against any
Kharge said to ANI, "The Hate Speech Bill will be discussed in the Assembly. Why is the BJP and its affiliates panicking? It has nothing to do with them."
Referring to what she described as a "poisonous and violent game" by mischievous elements, Mayawati alleged that certain "criminal and anti-social elements" were taking the law into their own hands under the guise of opposing religious conversion and so-called "love jihad".
The Allahabad High Court has overturned Mau MLA Abbas Ansari's conviction, son of gangster-turned politician, Mukhtar Ansari, in a 2022 hate speech case and restored his Assembly membership.
The plea was filed by Sunil Shukla, president of the Uttar Bhartiya Vikas Sena, who also sought directions to the Election Commission of India to derecognise the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS).
Elon Musk's chatbot Grok deleted several posts after complaints that it spread anti-Semitic content and praised Hitler. xAI said it's working to block hate speech and improve training. The ADL called the posts dangerous and urged AI makers to prevent extremist, anti-Semitic content.