‘Trishul a spiritual image now no longer a weapon’: Bajarang Dal on schooling camp in Kodagu
The improvement comes at a time while the Basavaraj Bommai-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) authorities in Karnataka has been accused of turning a blind eye on comparable sports completed through right-wing groups.
The Karnataka police are seeking to acquire statistics approximately a week-long “fingers schooling” camp carried out through right-wing group, Bajarang Dal, in Ponnampet in Kodagu district, approximately 240km from Bengaluru, a police reputable withinside the recognise of rely stated on Sunday.
During the schooling camp, wherein over one hundred humans took part, guns like trishul (trident) had been allotted some of the participants, the reputable stated.
“The trishul that we deliver is simply five.five inches and now no longer even sharp. It isn't always taken into consideration a weapon however a spiritual image,” south Karnataka convener for the Bajarang Dal Raghu Sakleshpur stated. “We behavior such classes each 12 months however the closing years it did now no longer appear due to Covid-19,” Sakleshpur stated.
Pictures of the schooling camp, with children firing air weapons and later being given the trishul attracted sharp complaint on social media structures for inactivity in opposition to such sports.
“We carried out the camp like each 12 months. We deliver schooling in the course of such camps. A comparable camp additionally occurred in Chitradurga in 2019,” stated a Bajarang Dal worker, inquiring for now no longer to be named.
“We distribute the trishuls under ‘trishula deekshe’ that is part of our practice. These trishuls have in no way been misused,” he added.
The improvement comes at a time while the Basavaraj Bommai-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) authorities in Karnataka has been accused of turning a blind eye on comparable sports completed through right-wing groups.
“We are nonetheless gathering information of this precise schooling camp in Ponnampet. So far, no criticism has been filed withinside the rely,” stated an reputable from the nearby police station, inquiring for now no longer to be named.
Despite repeated attempts, superintendent of police, Kodagu district, did now no longer reply to calls and messages searching for his comment.
Kodagu is a stronghold of the BJP and falls withinside the Malnad belt, bordering Dakshina Kannada, making it a great area to test with Hindutva-primarily based totally politics in a country that in any other case relies upon closely on caste equations.
Kodagu has subsidized the BJP for a couple of elections and numerous elected representatives, inclusive of MLAs, Apachu Ranjan and KG Bopaiah, and one MP Prathap Simha, who're from the saffron party
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