The Panchamasali reservation committee members and other community organisations on Thursday held several rallies in Belagavi district against Tuesday’s police lathi charge on demonstrators. Issuing a warning, he said, “If I give the call, 25 to 50 lakh Panchamasali Lingayats are ready to lay siege to the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha in Belagavi.” On Wednesday, the Hirebagewadi police registered a suo …
Panchamasali reservation committee and other community organisations held protest rallies in some places in Belagavi district condemning the police lathi charge against the committee members in Belagavi on Tuesday. Sri Basava Jaya Mrutyunjay Swami, head of the Panchamasali peetha and honourary president of the committee, alleged that the CM had ordered the lathi charge only to insult the community and …
Senior officials said in Belagavi on Tuesday that the police used force to stop activists of the Panchamasali Reservation Agitation Committee from storming the Suvarna Soudha. Senior officers, including Inspector-General of Police Vikas Kumar Vikas, Police Commissioner Iada Martin Marbaniang, Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Roshan and Superintendent of Police Bheemashankar Guled, told reporters in the police headquarters here on Tuesday that …