Karnataka BJP Yuva Morcha workers on Wednesday gheraoed and attacked BJP state unit president Nalin Kumar Kateel and heckled district in-charge minister Sunil Kumar in Puttur of Dakshina Kannada district when they came to pay their respects to murdered Yuva Morcha president Praveen Nettaru. A huge crowd had gathered during the funeral procession of the 32-year old BJP leader.

Praveen Nettaru had been hacked to death in front of his chicken shop in Bellare by bike-borne miscreants on Tuesday night. Kateel and Sunil Kumar had come to pay their respects in their van when the BJYM workers surrounded it and nearly tossed it around despite police presence.

A Twitter user, Suraj V, said, “What’s happening in our Karnataka, So many fights and murders and things have gone out of hand. We have one of the worst home ministers ever. Time to appoint someone who cares about this state.”

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According to reports, BJYM members have started mass resignation across the state after the murder. They blamed the Basavaraj Bommai government for the murder and said it had failed to protect its own party workers.

BJP MLA M.P. Renukacharya blamed the state government and threatened to resign party membership if the state government failed to take strict action against the killers.

Praising the Uttar Pradesh government’s stand on crime, the MLA said that this government can only sustain in Karnataka if it takes strict action against miscreants on the model of Yogi Adityanath’s  government.

Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi tweeted that names of members of the Popular Front of India (PFI) and the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) had come up in the murder case.

Joshi charged that Congress of protecting these organisations in Kerala and Karnataka. He vowed that the Karnataka government will find the culprits and punish them. Justice will be served, Joshi said in his tweet.

Dakshina Kannada district is a stronghold of the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and has seen killings of members of rival parties in tit-for-tat murders.

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