Scores of BJP activists and VHP supporters were taken into preventive custody by the police who foiled a Chamundi Chalo rally called by the Hindu Jagaran Vedike, in Mysuru on Tuesday (September 9, 2025).
The rally was organized to protest the Government’s decision to invite writer Banu Mushtaq to inaugurate Dasara festival slated to be held from September 22 to October 2, 2025.
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The police had already denied permission to hold the rally in view of the sensitivity of the situation and concern over law and order. Besides, Dasara-related works are underway and the rally could hamper the preparations while tourists and devotees visiting the popular shrine could also be put to inconvenience.
However, the activists assembled in large numbers at Kurubarahalli Circle where a strong posse of police was deployed to thwart their bid to flout the ban orders. There were multiple layer of security cordon and the BJP leaders including former MLA L.Nagendra condemned, what he described as ‘’police atrocity’’.
