Rambhapuri Kalyanamantapa at Vidyangar in Hubballi witnessed high drama on Saturday after officials from Election Commission and police stopped a meeting of religious heads from various mutts headed by Fakira Dingaleshwar Swami resulting in many seers taking out a protest march condemning the action.
Fakira Dingaleshwar Swami, who is openly campaigning against Union Minister Pralhad Joshi, had convened a meeting at the marriage hall and had also sought permission from the requisite authorities for the same on Friday.
However, when they began the meeting on Saturday, officials from the Election Commission of India entered the hall and sought to know whether they had received the permission letter to which the seers replied in the negative. Dingaleshwar Swami told the officials that although they had applied for permission, it had not been granted, nor had it been rejected. He said the officials had only delayed it.
