Jeevaraj, the MLA from Sringeri, had while flagging off a BJP Yuva Morcha rally in Chikmagalur yesterday chided Gauri for not writing against the killings of Sangh workers. "We all know how many Sangh workers lost their lives during Congress rule. Chikmagalur police today forwarded a complaint lodged by district Congress workers to the SIT probing Gauri's murder. Security cover The state government has on its own provided armed security to three progressive writers and a Lingayat monk who have been staunch critics of the Hindutva ideology. Kannada writer Chandrashekar Patil told this newspaper that he too had been provided security soon after the murder of rationalist writer M.M.

Source: The Telegraph September 08, 2017 20:37 UTC