Police trying to frame me : Siddalinga Swami

Sri Ram Sene national honorary president Siddalinga Swami, who claimed that illegal tomb like structures were erected on the Central University of Karnataka (CUK) campus in Kalaburagi recently and gave a call to demolish them, alleged that the district police were targeting him for raising voice against Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Priyank Kharge.

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday the religious head said that Narona police had field a case against him for objecting to the construction of illegal religious structures on the CUK campus, claiming that his remarks were provocative and inciting communal tensions. He said that summons has been issued against him on Saturday asking to appear before Narona Police for questioning in this regard.

The seer releasing two video footages in which Mr. Priyank Kharge is issuing a warning to officials that he would set on fire the bus depot, and in other video former MLA Doddappagowda Patil Naribol, in one of his speech, is seen threatening that he would barge into police station and thrash the police officials, said that if issuing a threat could be considered a provocative offence, then why did the police not show same concern to file a case against the two leaders.

Displaying old and new photographs of the tomb structures on the CUK campus, Siddalinga Swami claimed that there was a dilapidated heap of stone structure at a single place in 2014, while the same structure had been reconstructed recently. Besides these, two heaps of stones placed on the top of a hilly area on the campus indicated that a tomb-like structure would come up on the place in near future, he claimed.

The seer alleged that the assistant professor at CUK who had been accused of forcing hijab on female students during a field trip recently, was behind the conspiracy of constructing illegal tomb like structures to begin religious activities on the campus.