BJP MLA Says, 'Hindu activists fear Taliban govt taking over Karnataka'

Dakshina Kannada: BJP MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal on Friday stated that Hindu activists “fear that Taliban government is taking over Karnataka”.

Talking to reporters after visiting Hindu activists admitted to a hospital following alleged police torture, Yatnal stated, “Hindu activists were massacred during the earlier Congress regime. Now, the government is being formed with the same leadership



creating fear among Hindu activists.”

As the BJP was pushed to third position in Puttur assembly constituency and a BJP rebel candidate secured second position, disappointed with the defeat, a banner, which had portraits of BJP Karnataka President Nalin Kumar Kateel and former CM D.V. Sadananda Gowda was garlanded with slippers on May 13. The banner put up near Puttur bus stop claimed condolences for both leaders.