Balanced News: Opposition Protests As BJP Displays Hindutva ideologue Savarkar’s Portrait in K’taka Assembly

LoP Siddaramaiah wrote to Speaker to install portraits of personalities like Valmiki, Basavanna, Kanaka Dasa, BR Ambedkar, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and many others.As Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar’s portrait was undraped and displayed in the Karnataka Assembly hall by the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), the Opposition staged protests on the opening day of Winter Session. LoP Siddaramaiah wrote to Speaker to install portraits of personalities like Valmiki, Basavanna, Kanaka Dasa, BR Ambedkar, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and many others. Congress State president D K Shivakumar said he is also not aware of any such development.