Strongly condemning the decision of the Central University of Karnataka authorities to organise RSS events on university campus at Kadaganchi, members of Samyukta Horata Karnataka, a consortium of various progressive organisations, took out a 25-km padayatra from Kalaburagi city to the university campus on Tuesday.
District convener of Samyukta Horata Karnataka Sharanabasappa Mamshetty, Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha’s Nagendra Tambe, Dalit Sangharsh Samiti’s Arjun Gobbur, CPI(M)‘s Bheemshetty Yempalli and M.B. Sajjan, Jafar Khan and Shankrayya Ghanti, among others, took out the padayatra raising slogans against university Vice-Chancellor Battu Satyanarayana.
“We strongly condemn the decision of the administration, particularly the Vice-Chancellor and a few staff members, which is extending support to promoting RSS ideologies and conducting RSS activities that have nothing to do with the university,” Mr. Mamshetty said and added that “such activities violate the ethos of the institution which is meant to promote only academic activities.”
