Mangalore : Prof Narendra Nayak, National President of Federation of Indian Rationalists ‘Association paid tributes to late Narendra Dabholkar, a leader of the Maharashtra-based Andh Sharadha Nirmoolan Samiti, who was murdered year ago.

Speaking on the occasion, Prof Nayak urged the government to pass the Anti-superstition Act as pledged by CM Siddaramaiah, Dabholkar killed a year ago.

Later protesting, Prof Nayak said that every people of the country know that, Dabholkar was killed by rightist activists.

Criticizing Former union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, Prof Nayak said that Shinde was also a Samithi member, but he bowed down to the rightist movement of Maharashtra and did not utter a word or two against the assassination.

A senior activist of the Samiti in Pune, Kranti Poddar even the local people supported Dabholkar in his struggle to get rid of superstition, but after his death the police and other authorities are not taking the investigation any further, he regretted.

Dabholkar‘s murder cannot be considered as a common crime and must be treated as assassination since was a great activist with a vision to fight against superstition.