BJP and RSS workers on Monday staged a protest in Bengaluru against the gruesome murder of a local RSS functionary and demanded a fair probe into the case and immediate arrest of the culprits.
R Rudresh, a 37-year old RSS worker, was hacked to death by two motorcycle-borne men who struck him with machete on Kamaraja Road in Bengaluru on Sunday, when he was returning home on a bike after attending an RSS event.
RSS had called for a bandh on Monday in Shivajinagar area, where the murder took place following which prohibitory orders have been clamped in four police station limits of the eastern zone of the city Commissionerate limits till midnight.
Police said elaborate security arrangements had been made all over the city as a precautionary measure, adding that central forces have also been deployed.
Platoons of Karnataka State Reserve Police, City Armed Reserve, Rapid Action Force and Central Industrial Security Force have been deployed, police said.
BJP and RSS workers led by former Deputy Chief Minister R Ashoka and Members of Parliament Shobha Karandlaje and P C Mohan and others, marched from Shivajinagar towards Police Commissioner's office, but were stopped midway.
Linking Rudresh's murder to killing of BJP and RSS functionaries in different parts of the country, Karandlaje said "there is a feeling that these killings are part of a planned conspiracy."
( With inputs from PTI)
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