Join Campus Front of India graffiti in Shivamogga: Suo motu case registered

SHIVAMOGGA: After graffiti appeared on the walls of Shiralakoppa in Shikaripura taluk, Shivamogga, inviting youngsters to join the Campus Front of India (CFI), a student wing affiliated to the banned Popular Front of India (PFI), police in the Malnad district have booked cases against yet-to-be identified individuals. The case, registered on November 28, surfaced only on Sunday. A cop noticed the graffiti at nine spots around Shiralakoppa, around 70km from Shivamogga town, following which police in Shiralakoppa registered a suo motu case.
Police said that residents of Shiralakoppa had not noticed the graffiti, nor did they know about PFI. Police are yet to ascertain when the graffiti was scrawled on the walls.
Shivamogga superintendent of police Mithun Kumar GK said that it was possible for the messages to have been inscribed before the PFI was formally banned by the Union home ministry. "A few youngsters who were active members of the PFI earlier could be the ones who left those messages on the walls," he said.
Shivamogga MP and BJP functionary BY Raghavendra said that, activists of the PFI were still functional despite the PFI having been banned. He charged a few leaders with protecting and even supporting anti-social elements, and exhorted leaders of the Muslim community to ask youngsters to have no truck with the banned organisations. Meanwhile, former minister and senior BJP leader KS Eshwarappa dubbed it an 'act of cowardice', and exuded confidence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Union home minister Amit Shah rooting out anti-national organisations.
General secretary of the BJP CT Ravi said that a section of the Muslim community had been engaged in spreading their propaganda in India from as early as the seventh century, but the goal had remained unaccomplished. "These elements will continue to thrive in society if parties that practise politics of appeasement are voted to power," Ravi said.