In this excerpt from ‘Nanna Dhwani: Mahendra Kumar Badukina Putagalu’, Naveen Soorinje recalls his conversations with the late Bajrang Dal leader Mahendra Kumar.
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The Congress manifesto for Karnataka elections seeking a ban on organisations like Bajrang Dal and PFI seems to have given the BJP its theme slogan for the state polls. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has turned the issue on its head, saying the Congress has insulted Hanuman as the saffron outfit, Bajrang Dal, is named after the deity, making it central to his party’s campaign.
At heart of Ram temple movement, it is now known more for assaults taking law into own hands, especially over 'cow vigilantism'; named in several communal clashes in Karnataka.