The Hindu Right wing and pro-Kannada organisations are engaged in a battle over naming flyovers in BJP-ruled Karnataka.
While the Hindutva brigade wanted two flyovers, one each in Bangalore and Mangalore, named after their ideologue V.D. Savarkar, the pro-Kannada organisations and the Opposition parties have questioned the logic to ignore so many freedom fighters, social reformers and others from within the state.
Activists of the Bajrang Dal strung a flex banner printed with “Veera Savarkar Melsethuve (flyover) Pumpwell” in Kannada on the flyover in Mangalore’s Pumpwell on Tuesday night.
They also wrote “Bajrang Dal” in saffron paint on the divider of the flyover.
