Mangaluru: Joint forum demand for arrest of RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat

Team Udayavani, Dec 28, 2023, 12:08 PM IST

Mangaluru: The joint forum comprising secular parties and like-minded individuals in Dakshina Kannada (DK) district has requested the authorities to arrest RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat for allegedly using derogatory language targeting Muslim women in his recent speech.

Speaking at a press conference in the city on Thursday, December 28 the forum’s president and former Congress minister B. Ramanatha Rai asserted that Prabhakar Bhatt’s remarks were not only an insult to Muslim girls but to women as a whole.

“Forum demands immediate arrest of Bhat. His inflammatory statements are an attempt to provoke the of Hindus, especially ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections,” Rai said.

Rai further added that this is not the first time Prabhakar Bhat has made such remarks about girls, and a non-bailable case has already been registered against him. The forum is calling for swift action and his immediate arrest.

The press conference was attended by Secretary Munir Katipalla and leaders from various political parties and organizations, including CPI, CPIM, Dalit Sangharsh Samiti, and Raitha Sangh.

Recently, Bhat made a controversial comment during a Sankeertana Yatra organized by Hindu Jagarana Vedike on December 24.

Addressing the crowd, Bhat had asserted that criminalizing triple talaq granted Muslim women ‘permanent husbands,’ suggesting that before this, they did not have stable marriages. He claimed, ‘Muslim women must have been very happy with this move as they used to have a new husband every day, no permanent husband because they used to say talaq talaq talaq and leave.’