Kudalasangama seer to launch awareness yatra for Panchamasali reservation

Sri Basava Jaya Mrutyunjaya Swami launches Pratignya Kranti Abhiyan for Panchamasali community reservation re-categorisation and police brutality awareness.

Sri Basava Jaya Mrutyunjaya Swami of Kudalasangama Math will launch Pratignya Kranti Abhiyan to create awareness about the demand for re-categorisation of reservation for Panchamasali community and the alleged police brutalities on protestors.

The campaign will start from Kudalasangama on Januuary 14 and will go around villages in 200 Assembly constituencies in the State.

“I will conduct dialogue, negotiations and agitation with members of the community. I will speak to them to create awareness about the agitation,” he told reporters on Monday.

“Our agitation committee members faced brutal lathi-charge. We had asked for the suspension of police officers involved in the incident. Sadly, however, the government has announced a reward for those involved in the lathi-charge. We condemn this,” he said.

He said that community lawyers have approached the Dharwad Bench of the High Court of Karnataka against the lathi-charge. “The court has issued a notice to the government,” he added.

“We have strongly condemned the lathi-charge and sought suspension of the police officers involved. But the State government has announced cash awards for them. We believe it is only to spite us,” he said.

To a query, he said that he has already condemned the alleged insult of Minister Lakshmi Hebbalkar by BJP MLC C.T. Ravi. Various Panchamasali associations have condemned the incident, he said.