Declare PFI as anti-national terror outfit, arrest its leaders: VHP

Mangaluru, Aug 16: Claiming that investigation agencies have found enough material to declare Popular Front of India as an anti-national terror outfit, Saffron leaders have urged the government to ban the organisation and invoke the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) against all its leaders.

Addressing a media conference called by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal in the city on Wednesday, VHP leader Jagadish Shenava, who is also an advocate, said that the arrest of a PFI leader in RSS worker Sharath Madiwala murder case has once again proved that the outfit believes in violence. 

“This is not the first case. The accused in the murder cases of Bajrang Dal activist Prashant Poojary (Moodbidri), RSS worker Rudresh (Bengaluru), Raju (Mysuru) also belong to PFI,” he said said.

“It is high time that union and state governments ban PFI and other outfits that have connections with it. Those organisations are trying to divide the country and destroy harmony in the society. All the leaders of such organisations should be arrested,” he demanded.  

VHP district secretary Gopal Kuthar and Bajrang Dal DK district convenor Bhujanga Kulal were present among others at the press meet.