Manaluru : DK district unit of BJP Yuva Morcha, as part of the ‘Mangaluru chalo’ protest rally organized by the state body, will hold protest meetings in all gram panchayats in the district on September 4. This will serve as a precursor to the main protest event scheduled in this coastal city on September 7, which state BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa, national general secretary P Muralidhar Rao, and BJP yuva morcha state chief Pratap Simha and others will address.

Harish Poonja, president of district unit of the morcha said preparations are afoot to ensure success of the September 7 protest meeting at Nehru Maidan. The state has seen spate of killings of leaders and cadre from the BJP as well as Hindu chauvinistic organisations under the present Congress dispensation in Karnataka, Harish said. Protest will seek to highlight failure of state government to crack down on these political murders across the state in last two years.

The gram panchayat level protests meets will seek to build tempo to the bike rally that the state unit of the morcha has organized from five parts of the state, all of which is scheduled to converge in this coastal city a day ahead of the protest rally. The yuva morcha post gram panchayat level meeting will submit a memorandum to the Governor Vajubhai Vala through the local authorities seeking ban on ‘communal organization’ such as the PFI and the KFD.

On the ‘Sadbhavana Rally’ that district minister B Ramanath Rai has planned to counter the BJPs protest rally in the district on September 12 with an open invitation to all except the BJP as well PFI for they are ‘communal’, Harish said, “Ramanath Rai is the Nazi ideological face of Dakshina Kannada district. He is directly responsible for deaths of Hindu workers in the district and could face the courts if a case if made out against him when BJP returns to power.”