Pramod Muthalik announced Retirement from Sri Ram Sena National President Post
Pramod Muthalik has announced his voluntary retirement from Sri Ram Sena position as National President. Siddalinga Swamiji has been elected as the National President of Sri Rama Sena.
Pramod Muthalik announced his retirement today (July 30) in Karadagi village of Savanur taluk of Haveri district and Siddalinga Swamiji, who was the state president of Karnataka Sri Ram Sena, was announced as the national president.
Pramod Muthalik also announced the Gangadhar Kulkarni as the state president of Karnataka Sri Ram Sena. Muthalik was born in 1963 to a Brahmin family in Hukkeri, Karnataka’s Belgaum district. In 1975, he joined the RSS. In 2004, he was appointed as the Bajrang Dal’s convenor for South India.
Muthalik was dismissed from Bajrang Dal in 2005. Following that, in August 2005, he established the Shiv Sena’s Karnataka section, asserting that he desired a political platform to pursue Hindutva’s aims. He was joined by Vilas Pawar, the former district head of the Bajrang Dal for Belgaum, and over 5,000 workers from the Bajrang Dal, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The Shiv Sena was formed in Karnataka around this time. Muthalik left the Sena in 2006 as the party resurrected its demand for the union of Karnataka’s ostensibly claimed Marathi-speaking districts, such as Belgaum, Uttara Kannada, and Bidar district, with Maharashtra. He went on to find the Rashtriya Hindu Sena.
Muthalik founded Sri Ram Sena after leaving the Shiv Sena in 2006. The Ram Sena members raid on a Mangalore pub in 2009. Muthalik justified the attack by claiming that girls going to the pub was against Indian culture. He also questioned the government’s and the media’s reticence on the unlawful Bangladeshi infiltrators.
Following the incident, the state administration of the Bharatiya Janata Party barred him from visiting Mangalore. In reaction, he campaigned against the BJP in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, branding it “corrupt and anti-Hindu,” but declined to run himself. He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party Karnataka state unit in 2014 but was forced to leave amid complaints from other members.
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