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Pramod Muthalik, the Sri Rama Sene chief has decided to put up a fight against the BJP in Karnataka. Red-faced after being given an unceremonious exit, he announced that he will file his nomination as an independent candidate from Dharwad Lok Sabha constituency on Wednesday.

After being ousted by the BJP in less than 5 hours and giving the Karnataka BJP 24 hours to reconsider their decision, Muthalik was all up in arms. He made it clear that he has decided to not   only to contest against the BJP state president Prahlad Joshi, but also field candidates against Ananth Kumar and other BJP leaders in the state.

"The BJP should apologise for what they have done. They have not just insulted Pramod Muthalik, but also the people. BJP leaders said they will build a ram temple, what happened? They said they will amend Article 370..what happened? BJP leaders watch porn in the assembly? What kind of culture is that? Rajnath Singh should apologise for all that."

In what could be called a retaliation with words, Muthalik said that he would expose the corrupt practises of the BJP leaders with documents.

After holding a 4 hour long meeting with his followers, he announced ’I, Pramod Muthalik, have decided to stand as an independent candidate from Dharwad Lok Sabha constituency for the sake of Hindutva and the people of Karnataka. I have been insulted by the BJP. I will take this as an insult of the people who follow Hindutva. I will fight and show them how I can win this election.’

Senior BJP leader K S Eswarappa who was present when Muthalik was inducted did a sudden U-turn. He went on record today saying that the party members will abide by what the BJP central leaders decide.

The fact that the BJP leaders who inducted Muthalik distanced themselves from him the moment Rajnath Singh told the state president to disqualify him, infuriated the Sri Rama Sene leader. While Muthalik kept saying that he joined hands with the BJP with the goal to make Modi the Prime Minister... today he sang a different tune.

Muthalik said "Why did Modi not talk in support of my being a part of the BJP? I wanted to work towards making him the PM."

BJP Spokesperson S Prakash added "The chapter was closed for us the day Muthalik’s membership was disqualified. We have nothing more to do with him. We follow what our high command say."

The Congress however seem to be watching the developments with much amusement. Congress leader and Karnataka Minister for Food and Civil supplies Dinesh Gundu Rao said ’the BJP is willing to take anybody and everybody to win this election. Muthalik has taken this whole episode personally. The BJP have exposed themselves and their extremist ideologies with this move, but more importantly, while Muthalik may have a minimal impact on the vote share, the fact he is contesting against the BJP is Advantage Congress."

The Sri Rama Sene chief Pramod Muthalik did not mince words when it came to BJP senior leader Ananth Kumar. "Ananth Kumar is responsible for this entire conspiracy. He is the man who has divided the BJP, involved in a 16 thousand crore scam and so I will expose him too."