HJS petitions have led to cancellations of multiple events; recurrence flagged as ‘security concern’
The HinduIn the last year, at least three programmes were cancelled in Bengaluru by the police and other authorities, acting on petitions submitted by Hindu Janjagruti Samiti, a sister organisation of Goa-based Hindutva organisation Sanatan Sanstha. Avinash Patil, of Maharashtra Andhashradha Nirmoolan Samiti, started by the late Dabholkar, for whose murder in 2013 individuals associated with HJS were charged, said petitioning against events organised by progressive groups and getting them cancelled was a familiar modus operandi. Representatives of HJS have also been regularly part of several panel discussions on television channels purportedly representing the Hindus, and emerged as a major voice during the January-June 2022 period in Karnataka when several fringe Hindutva organisations had been carrying out communal campaigns targeting the minority community. A senior police official said the mainstreaming of HJS and several other fringe Hindutva organisations in Karnataka, especially during January to June 2022, had been flagged to the government as a security concern.
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