Udupi: VHP and Bajrang Dal held a meeting condemning the 'anti-Hindu' policies of the state Congress government on Monday. Speaking on occasion, Jagadish Shenava, Dakshina Kannada district president of Vishwa Hindu Parishat said,

"About 80% of the people in the state are Hindus. Yet we are living as second-grade citizens. When people from the minority communities, comprising less than a quarter of the population face harassment, there are scores of people raising their voice, but nobody comes forward when Hindus are attacked. This is the irony of the Hindu community. There is grim situation in Dakshina Kannada because of Congress policies.

He was speaking in a meeting held here on Monday July 31 condemning the 'anti-Hindu' policies of the state Congress government. The programme was jointly held by VHP and Bajrang Dal.

"Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister Ramanath Rai does not know anything about law. His attitude is discriminatory. Suspects in Sharath Madivala case have not been arrested even after one month of the murder. The irony is, police visit houses of Hindu activists and drag out their parents, but they have never gone to the house of any SDPI activist," he said.

Udupi district VHP president Vilas Nayak said that section 307 and 308 were slapped on those who took law into their hands before independence. "It seems the present chief minister pushes anybody he can lay hands on into prison. It is in a way like a another freedom struggle," he said.