Mandya: The Mandya city bandh called by Pro-Hindu organisations this morning in protest against the removal of Hanuma Dhwaja from the flag post at Keragodu in Mandya taluk recently and the subsequent violence that erupted over the issue, just got limited to bike rally in the sugar town. Shops, offices and other commercial establishments remained open as usual.
Activists of Bajrang Dal, VHP and other Hindu organisations held a bike rally from Keragodu after performing puja at the local Anjaneyaswamy temple. As the bike rally, in which hundreds of activists took part, reached Mandya city limits, the protestors, who demanded that the Hanuma Dhwaja be re-hoisted from the Keragodu flag post, offered special puja at the Hanuman temple located on market street. Later they chanted Hanuman Chalisa in unison and took out a padayatra to the Mandya Deputy Commissioner’s office, where they presented a memorandum to DC Dr. Kumara seeking hoisting of Hanuma Dhwaja at Keragodu.
