Mangaluru, Sept 24: In an apparent attempt to lure more Billavas into its fold, the Dakshina Kannada district unit of Bharatiya Janata Party has decided to take out a 22-km padayatra from Puttur to Padumale in Puttur taluk on October 2 seeking action against forces behind the recent desecration of the statue of Deyi Baidethi, mother of warrior twins Koti-Chennayya at Mupinadka. 
The yatra will also seek to bring pressure on the government to provide suitable protection to Hindu temples, daivasthanas that thieves have targeted with increasing regularity, of late.
Nalin Kumar Kateel, Dakshina Kannada MP said the party had taken out a padayatra from Polali to Kateel when religious bigots had insulted the presiding deity of Sri Kshetra Kateel in the past. The padayatra from Puttur to Padumale is being held with the twin objective of seeking further probe in to the desecration of the statue of Deyi Baidethi and also to demand that the government give due protection to Hindu religious places of worship across the district, he said.
Sanjeeva Matandoor, president of district unit of BJP said while police have arrested a religious bigot in this connection, there is a clear attempt to hush up the case politically.
"Police have not made headway into their investigation in to people who were with the youth when he desecrated the statue of Deyi and posted it on Facebook," he said, adding this singular act has hurt feelings of a large section of Hindus and Hindu organisations' have staged protests as well.
The Hindus have deified the warrior twins and their mother in the district and the state government has not taken any steps to assuage the hurt feelings of the community by going after others involved in this act.
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