Some Lingayat Panchamasali leaders stage a protest in Belagavi on Friday against the former Minister and BJP leader Murugesh Nirani’s statement questioning the caste of Mrinal Hebbalkar, Congress candidate from Belagavi.
Mr, Nirani had said that Mrinal Hebbalkar was not a Panchamasali leader as his father Ravindra Hebbalkar was a Banajiga, while his mother and Minister Lakshmi Hebbalkar was born in a Panchamasali family.
They took out a mock funeral procession of the former Minister in an effigy, slapped his images with slippers and shouted slogans against him.
