Goa:“We will not tolerate any form of Dadagiri”, Naik

"Goa Home Minister Ravi Naik"

20-03-09 Home Minister Ravi Naik today dared Sri Ram Sena chief Pramod Mutalik to enter the coastal State, saying locals themselves will send him back. Challenging Naik, who had declared that the right wing group would not be allowed to set up its unit in Goa, Muthalik had on Wednesday that he along with his volunteers would enter the tourist State to protest the pub culture existing in Goa.

Mutalik had said that several political leaders from Goa were in touch with him and SRS would hold public meetings in the Congress-NCP-ruled state.
Reacting to this, Naik said, “Let him come first... when is he coming? People of Goa themselves will drive out such divisive forces,” Naik told reporters in Panjim.
To a question, the Home Minister said based on the organisation’s track record in neighbouring Karnataka, Goa can even ban it.
 

“We will not allow incidents like attack on Mangalore pub to happen here. Goa is a peaceful State and the government will not allow anyone to spoil it,” he said.
Sena activists had barged into a pub at Mangalore on January 24 and attacked women and others in an act of moral policing against pub culture, triggering protests.
 

Mutalik, who faces over 30 cases, has been banned from entering Dakshin Kannada district for a year.
We will not tolerate any form of ‘dadagiri’ (Violence) here. We are a peaceful, harmonious, multicultural state,” Naik told reporters.
 

Responding to Muthalik’s threat, the minister said he would take up the issue with the director general of police in Goa and look at ways in which the Sri Rama Sena’s threat could be handled.
 “Goa is a literate state. People here are aware and more conscious. They will not accept such blatant hooliganism,” he said.
 

Leader of Opposition and BJP leader supported the move and said that the Rama Sena should be thrown out “lock stock and barrel”.

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