Sri Rama Sene, which has been opposing azan (call for prayer) on loudspeakers, launched a campaign of playing suprabhata, bhajans, or Hanuman chalisa on loudspeakers early on Monday morning in some parts of Karnataka. Security has been beefed up near temples in districts where such incidents were reported, as the Sene has threatened to continue the campaign, and a few activists were detained by the police.
Sene chief Pramod Mutalik launched the campaign by playing suprabhata and other devotional songs on loudspeaker at a Hanuman temple in Mysuru.
At Bengaluru, as many as 10 Hindutva activists were detained when they came to recite Hanuman chalisa at Jaya Anjaneya temple in Vivek Nagar in the early hours of Monday. There was heated argument before they were detained.
