Police in DK exhibiting goonda behaviour, says B.Y. Vijayendra

Police in DK exhibiting goonda behaviour, says B.Y. Vijayendra

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, June 10, 2025: State BJP president B.Y. Vijayendra alleged here on Monday that the police in Dakshina Kannada are “exhibiting goonda behaviour under the guise of maintaining law and order”.

Addressing presspersons at the party’s district office, Mr. Vijayendra alleged that the State government had formed special action force to tackle communal incidents in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, and Shivamogga districts, only to target Hindutva activists.

He alleged that police personnel in Dakshina Kannada entered the houses of Sangh Parivar activists in the night and threatened them. The leaders of the BJP, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Bajrang Dal, and the Hindu Jagarana Vedike are being threatened by the police, in the name of maintaining law and order by taking their photographs by visiting their houses in the night, he said.

A female police constable even showed a revolver and threatened an activist, he alleged.

Mr. Vijayendra said that if the police in Dakshina Kannada continued to “exhibit goonda behaviour”, the BJP will launch a State-wide agitation against them and the government.

He further alleged that police threats to Sangh Parivar activists increased after the government constituted the special action force and after the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) formed its find-finding committee to study the reasons and solutions for communal unrest in the coastal districts.

Mr. Vijayendra alleged that the police acted against Hindutva activists under pressure from the State government.

“The police have become puppets in the hands of the State government. Hindutva activists are being insulted to appease minorities in Dakshina Kannada,” he alleged.

Mr. Vijayendra questioned the police for not registering any case against Ivan D’Souza, MLC, for publicly threatening to launch a Bangladesh-type agitation to force Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot to vacate his office, in Mangaluru in 2024. “But the police recently filed a case against RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat for speaking within four walls,” he said.

He said that love jihad, cow slaughter, sand and drug mafias are the basic reasons for tension mounting in society in the coastal belt. The government should first address them, he said.

He said that a delegation of the BJP which met the Deputy Commissioner, the Police Commissioner, and the Superintendent of Police on Monday discussed the recent incidents in Dakshina Kannada. The BJP leaders told the police and the official machinery to act impartially and not to succumb to pressure from the ruling party.

The BJP leaders, R. Ashok, Chalavadi Narayanaswamy, D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Capt. Brijesh Chowta, Aravind Bellad, and others were present.