Click to play videoBangalore: Two days after the first attack on churches, the streets of Mangalore wore a deserted look. But it wasn’t the VHP or the Christians who had called the bandh.
The fear of a new and little known outfit – the Sri Ram Sena, a self proclaimed army of God started by radical thinker Pramod Mutalik – kept residents indoors.
According to Mutalik there are “1,132 members in the suicide squad.”
“They keep track of activities of anti-Hindu and anti-national groups. They also inform the police. From our side, we want to help the police as much as possible. If the police can't stop this, our teams will,” Mutalik said.
The Ram Sena reportedly holds arms training camps in Mangalore, Belgaum and Shimoga.
“Our motive is to kill anti-national elements. In Hubli, Belguam, Goa and Dharwad, we were the ones to lead the police to terror training camps. We told them about their activities,” Mutalik revealed.
Mutalik started out as a saffron activist but over the last few months, the BJP has been shying away from associating with him and the Ram Sena.
“Ram Sena is not with us. They are not our outfit,” BJP leader and Karnataka Home Minister VS Acharya said.
The police claim the Ram Sena is all talk and false threats. Sources also say the sena's commitment does not match those of fundamentalist groups like the SIMI.
Though, Mutalik is currently evading arrest for making provocative speeches, saffron observers say his fundamentalism is weak, but not to be ignored.
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