After the externment of five Sri Ram Sene activists including convenor Prasad Attavar by Dakshina Kannada district magistrate V Ponnuraj last week, Pramod Mutalik, Sri Ram Sene chief, has said he will defy the externment order and enter Mangalore with 10,000 Sene workers.

Mutalik said at a press conference on Sunday: “I will defy the externment and ban order with impunity and sheer brute force.” He claimed he would enter Mangalore with a force of 10,000 Sene workers to oppose the “hate politics being unleashed by the government or the party in power.” 

Mutalik also said a national meeting of the Sene will be held in Delhi on March 24 to discuss making it a pan-Indian Hindutva outfit. He clarified the Sene would however have no political identity. 

Mutalik also raised another demand-- the return of the paduka (relic) to the shrine of the Dattareya Peetha in Chikmagalur. The relic is currently in the custody of the district administration.

M Raghuram/ DNA-Daily News & Analysis Source: 3D Syndication