Bengaluru: Sri Ram Sene founder president Pramod Muthalik has kicked off yet another controversy by comparing slain journalist Gauri Lankesh’s murder to a dog’s death.
Muthalik was speaking at a programme on ‘Exposing anti-Hindu conspiracy by Leftists’ organized by the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti at Ramamadira temple here in Rajajinagar on June 17, when he resorted to attacking the critics who have been demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi break his silence on the Gauri murder case.
“Is Modi responsible even if a dog dies in Karnataka,” he questioned.
It may be recalled that Sene’s involvement is being suspected especially after Parashuram Waghmare, a 26-year-old youth was nabbed on charges of having shot Gauri to death, from Bellari. Waghmare has claimed to have affiliated to Sri Rama Sena and said that he killed the journalist to save his religion. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) summoned Rakesh Math, the Vijayapura district president of the Sene, for questioning in the case too. However, while Muthalik has refuted the claims of Waghmare, he snubbed those seeking answers from Modi by stating that when such murders happen in Congress-ruled states, nobody questions the Congress and its failures, but everyone expects to get answers from the PM.
Anyway, after making the ‘dog’s death’s comment, he clarified that it was just a statement and it held no comparison to Gauri Lankesh’s death.
Lankesh, 55, the Editor of ‘Lankesh Patrike’, was shot dead outside her residence in RR Nagar by unidentified assailants on September 5 last year.
