Mangaluru, Aug 12: A group of Hindutva activists, who allegedly tried to attack rationalist thinker and writer K Prof. S Bhagawan, who was addressing a press conference in the city on Wednesday, was whisked away by police.
Prof Bhagawan, who is known for his tough stance against communal politics, casteism and blind-believes, justified his previous remarks on Bhagawad Gita, the Ramayana and Pejawar Mutt chief pontiff Vishwesha Tirtha during the press conference at Press Club.
Meanwhile, a group of BJP activists gathered outside the press club. Anticipating law and order problems the cops whisked away the activists. Posting a posse of policemen the city, the police virtually turned the bhawan into a fortress to prevent any clash.
K.S. Shivaramu, State president of the Karnataka Raya Hindulida Vargagala Jagrutha Vedike, was also with Prof. Bhagawan at the press conference.
Even as the press conference was going on, BJP workers, led by Franklin Monteiro, staged a protest outside the bhawan raising slogans against Mr. Bhagawan. The police detained them and took them away to prevent any trouble.
In the press conference, Mr. Bhagawan alleged that the seer was showing lip sympathy for the welfare of the downtrodden of Hinduism. He alleged that the seer did not have real concern for their welfare. Criticising some characters in the Ramayana and the Bhagawad Gita, he said that only the Constitution was supreme.
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