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Goa renews ban on Sri Rama Sene's Muthalik
Panaji, July 15
Authorities in North Goa and
South Goa districts have renewed the ban on the entry of Pramod
Muthalik, chief of the Mangalore-based Hindu right-wing organisation Sri
Rama Sene, a government official said on Wednesday.
"Muthalik
and his associates from the Sri Rama Sene have been banned from entering
the two districts of Goa for 60 days from July 16 (Thursday) onwards as
his aggressive statements and comments could hurt community feelings of
certain groups and create violence, riots or an affray resulting in
serious law and order problem," a government spokesperson said.
The
ban orders against Muthalik - infamous for his alleged communal
speeches - were passed by North Goa's Additional Collector Swapnil Naik
and South Goa's District Collector Sachin Shinde respectively, the
spokesperson said.
Muthalik, who first shot to notoriety nearly a
decade ago after beating up patrons of a Mangalore pub, was first
banned from entering Goa by the then Congress government in 2009, after
he publicly announced that he would try to curb the pub culture in Goa
and try and establish 'Hindu culture' in the state.
The ban was subsequently renewed by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition government in 2014.