Mangaluru Will Get NIA Office If BJP Wins Next Assembly Elections in Karnataka: BSY

Mangaluru: Karnataka state BJP unit president BS Yeddyurappa (BSY) has said that if his party forms government in Karnataka after next state assembly elections, then he is ready to take necessary steps to start an office of National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Mangaluru.

Speaking in a press conference here in Mangaluru on Sunday, BSY assured that he is ready to move forward to establish a new NIA amid growing number of incidents related to communalism, terrorism and others in coastal Karnataka and northern districts of neighboring Kerala state.

BSY stressed the need for an NIA office in Mangaluru as some organizations have indulged to recruit youths of Coastal Karnataka including Mangaluru, Udupi, Bhatkal and Northern Regions of Kerala which includes Kasaragod, Kannur, Kozhikode, Malappuram and others.

Communal organizations have been targeting the members of Hindu outfits in Coastal Karnataka and number of Hindu youths murdered during the past several years by the communal forces. Therefore there is an urgency for a NIA office in Mangaluru, BSY added.