| Mutalik rubbishes pink chaddi campaign 10 Feb 2009, 2156 hrs IST, TNN
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HUBLI: Rashtriya Hindu Sene (RHS) founder president Pramod Mutalik has rubbished the pink chaddi campaign of Consortium of Pub-Going, Loose and Forward Women as "a base tactic to shy away from the core issue of Indian culture".
Reacting to their desperate move to gift pink chaddies to RHS' front organization Sri Rama Sene, which spearheaded the attack on girls at a Mangalore pub last month, Mutalik said he was game for an ideological debate with the promoters of the blog.
Speaking to TOI from Miraj in Maharashtra on Tuesday, Mutalik said the move reflected the desperate mindset of these women. "Since they are women, stooping to the level of gifting undergarments will defame them only," he observed.
"Instead of talking at such base levels on the issue of Indian culture that I have raised, it will be better to debate it at the ideological level. I am prepared for that. Let there be a discussion on it across the table," Mutalik said.
He said RHS has no plans for contesting the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. The candidates fielded by RHS in several north Karnataka constituencies during the last assembly elections could no even save their security deposits.
A former South India convener of Bajrang Dal, a front organization of RSS, Mutalik had parted ways with the saffron outfit to launch the state unit of the Shiv Sena. But on differences over Marathi-speaking areas of Belgaum, he disbanded the party unit and floated RHS.
Muthalik insults Hinduism by trying to foist slamic values on Hindus (like telling women to cover themselves from head to foot etc.)