Karkala: Sri Ram Sena chief Pramod Mutalik on Tuesday filed his nomination as an independent candidate for the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections. Pramod will contest the polls from Karkala Aseembly constituency.
He was accompanied by Sri Ram Sena leader Gangadhar Kulkarni and others while filing his nomination.
Taking on the BJP, Muthalik had earlier announced that he would contest the elections adding despite BJP being in power, Hindutva activists were being harassed and targeted. He had said he would fight for the rights of Hindutva activists in the Karnataka assembly.
Subhas Hegde, Shri Ram Sena State General Secretary Anand Shetty, Pramod Muthalik Fan Association President Harish Adhikari, Chittaranjan Shetty, Durga Sena President Vinaya Ranade, Secretary Rupa Shetty, and others were also present during the filing of nomination.

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Mumbai (PTI): A 75-year-old man died after some portion of a slab in a two-storey residential structure collapsed on him in Mumbai's Bhandup area on Saturday morning, officials said.
The incident occurred at Tulshipada in Patkar Compound of Bhandup West around 9.45 am, they said.
"The victim, identified as Susai Daevdas Kaunder, was injured when some part of the slab on the upper floor of a two-storey structure fell on him," a civic official said.
He was immediately taken to nearby Navkaar Hospital, where he was declared dead, the official said.
