Sri Rama Sene President Pramod Muthalik is in the news all over India in all the press and electronic media following an attack on a pub in Mangalore by his army — Sri Rama Sene.

I had seen him in flesh and blood a couple of years ago in my office sitting in front of me. At this distance of time I do not remember what for he had come, but I do remember a few sparklers of our conversation. He identified himself as an RSS man working in North Karnataka but now distanced himself for whatever reason from both RSS and naturally BJP. However, he projected himself before me as a very strongly committed Hindutva man.

I was really not much impressed by his personality nor the way he spoke. All the same I had no doubt that he had the power of persuasion and to work with passion for his avowed cause. I asked him why he was disappointed with RSS and BJP. I do not remember the exact reason he gave, if at all he had given me the reason. For a moment I thought he was prevaricating. It was later, after the Mangalore incident, I learnt that he had aspired to become an MLC — a BJP MLC — which was denied to him in preference to someone who had worked much less for BJP and RSS.

Naturally, he was disappointed. He told me that he was responsible for getting 28 BJP MLAs elected from North Karnataka area where earlier BJP had opened a very meager account. If he could get so many MLAs for the party, he also knew how to make BJP lose. I thought it was a boast of a frustrated person, of an ambitious person. Indeed, 2008 elections which catapulted BJP to power in the State proved him wrong on his assumptions.

The Mangalore incident unwittingly made him a national hero of sorts in the manner some fundamentalists and fanatics were made martyrs. Now that he is on bail at least till Mar.12 he has spoken to the press saying that he will spread the tentacles of Sri Rama Sene to other parts of India too. Too many Senes for one India, when I thought there is only one Sene — Indian Army.

It is said in law, when usage ends custom begins and when custom ends law begins. And I may add here, when law ends mafia begins. The Senas of different kinds that we have in different parts of the country, are by their action undoubtedly the visible face of mafia. They come to play their role only because of an effete administration and corrupt government.

Courtesy: Star of Mysore

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