Any Ganesh Mandal that wants to put up any image in public paces has to obtain permission from the local municipal body. The police will take legal action against organisations that do not obtain due permissions, Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order) Alok Kumar said in Belagavi on Tuesday.
He was responding to a query on some BJP leaders distributing posters and images of V.D. Savarkar to Ganesh Mandals and asking them to install them in Ganesh Mandals and some Congress leaders saying that they will ask their followers to install images of others such as Sangolli Rayanna and Buddha, Basaveshwara and Ambedkar.
“Whose image is being placed is immaterial to us. We only want the organisers to take due permission. Mandals should take permissions from the city corporation, municipal council or the gram panchayat concerned,’’ Mr. Kumar said.
