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Warning: Pramod Mutalik to start his poll campaign

Sene chief to get into the big fight with a Hindu convention in Hubli.

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Pramod Mutalik, mentor of the infamous Sriram Sene has convened a state-level Hindu convention here from November 8 to 10, which political observers see as marking his entry into politics.

Mutalik has announced that he would be contesting as a Srirama Sene candidate from the Dharwad Lok Sabha constituency in the elections to the Lok Sabha due next year.

Mutalik’s posters have Narendra Modi’s picture and declaring: “Modi for the nation, Mutalik for the state”. Mutalik’s campaign is carefully planned and calibrated and  the eve of the convention witnessed the sudden birth of ‘Modi Mutalik Abhimani Brigade’.

Interesting, Mutalik, a highly-vocal advocate of Hindutva, has chosen Dharwad, from where BJP state president Prahlad Joshi has been member of the Lok Sabha since 2004. Mutalik had tried to contest the May election to the assembly on a BJP ticket, but the plans could not take off for reasons not known.

If Mutalik stands affirm on his decision of contesting in Lok Sabha elections from Dharwad, then BJP, especially Joshi, will lose sleep as Mutalik may grab a part of the BJP vote. How does the Sene mentor reconcile his contesting against the BJP with plugging for the prime ministerial candidate of the same party?

Mutalik told dna that Modi was only leader in the nation who could protect interests of people in the current scenario. `Not only myself, even Yedyurappa, who quit BJP and opposed the same in recent Assembly elections, is now soft towards the party because of Modi,” he said. He said his contesting against Prahlad Joshi arose out of his strained relations with the State BJP.  “As they ignored my requests, now I have stopped knocking the door of BJP and have decided to show my popularity. No doubt, I will win the battle,” he said confidently.

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