Leader of opposition R. Ashok and his deputy Arvind Bellad, a few legislators and scores of others courted arrest in Hubballi on January 3 while protesting against the arrest of a Hindutva activist in connection with violence post demolition of the Babri masjid in Ayodhya in 1992.
Leading a protest outside Town Police Station in Hubballi against the arrest of Srikanth Poojari for rioting on December 5, 1992, Mr Ashok and other BJP leaders accused the Congress government in Karnataka of taking appeasement politics to the highest level by arresting a ‘Ram bhakt’ (devotee of Lord Ram).
Mr Ashok alleged that while the Congress government was protecting the Mangaluru cooker bomb accused, it was arresting Ram bhakts as it is unable to digest the fact that Ram temple had finally come up in Ayodhya.
