Ban Shri Ram Sena

Organizations like Shri Ram Sena need to be banned. Around 15-20 activists of this group were involved in beating up boys and molesting girls in a pub in Mangalore. When TV channels picked it up, the founder of the organization, Mr Pramod Muthalik maintained that this is a small incident and doesn’t deserve national coverage. Mr Pramod Muthalik is now under arrest, but not for the Mangalore incident. About 25 activists involved or related to the incident are already behind bars.

The organization has apologized for its behavior, but has insisted that even though the methods were wrong, the message needs to be focused on. Their message is simply that, Indian women shouldn’t be allowed to dress provocatively, drink and dance around in pubs and bars, as it is not a part of prevalent culture.

What Shri Ram Sena fails to understand is that the law of the land doesn’t allow them to enforce “their view” of culture on others, especially in a democracy. But that is not all, I suspect that the organization is actively involved in misinforming youth and their activists in the name of god.

Take their Website for instance, it has a page titled, Political Economy of the Indian Mass Media. The post talks about Indian Newspapers and TV News Channels being owned by foreign Christian and Muslim Institutions. The facts in the posts are totally baseless. The current Indian laws don’t allow for more than 49% FDI in media companies. Simply put, a Newspaper can’t be majority owned, and thus operated, by foreign entities and nationals.

It is organizations like these that lead to Talibanization of nations - the organization rightfully ought to be banned. I’ve flagged the blog for site for objectionable content. You should do so too.