Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Districts Religious Fair Businessmen’s Coordination Committee has demanded that Muslim vendors be allowed to carry out trade on the temple premises
It is worth recalling that Professor S Japhet, founding director of the UGC-sponsored Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSEEIP) was a prominent player in drafting the controversial Anti-Superstition Bill, in 2013. It is worth noting that the bill intended to outlaw 'superstitious practices' was a pet project of Karnataka CM P Siddaramaiah.
While Siddharth was in the midst of his interaction with the media, a group of men from the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike Swabhimani Sene entered the venue and requested his departure.
BR Patil tried fearmongering, claiming that the BJP would carry out a false flag operation and “bomb Ram Mandir”. He brazened it out alleging that it could then pin the blame for the bomb attack on Muslims.