Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Apr 25: Founder of Sri Ram Sene, Pramod Mutalik, announced that the Sene will be fielding candidates independently in some constituencies during the next assembly election in the state. He was speaking to media persons during his visit to the city on Monday April 24 to appear in court relating to pub attack case of 2009.

"Sri Ram Sene will not enter into any kind of alliance or understanding with any other party in the next assembly election. We have not so far taken a decision about the constituencies where our candidates will contest the election," he clarified.

Mutalik said that a systematic conspiracy to eliminate Hindu leaders is being executed in Karnataka and that Popular Front of India (PFI) is behind this plan. He charged the state government of providing impetus to this organization instead of banning it. He gave examples of murders Raju from Mysuru, Rudresh from Bengaluru, Prashant from Moodbidri and abduction and killing of two students at Hunsur. He blamed PFI for all these killings. Mutalik said that the government had withdrawn over 200 cases filed against PFI activists in Mysuru, Hassan, and Shivamogga, thereby indirectly supporting the killing of Hindu leaders.