India
oi-Prakash KL
Congress
leader
and
KPCC
general
secretary
Mithun
Rai
reportedly
received
death
threats
on
a
social
media
site.
It
comes
days
after
his
Twitter
clash
with
Kannada
actor
Rakshit
Shetty
over
Udupi
mutt
row.
According
to
the
complaint,
he
received
a
life-threatening
message
from
a
social
media
user
called
‘Honey
Hindustani
Mumbai’ in
a
Whatsapp
group
titled
‘Jai
Sriram’.
“A
person
in
the
name
of
Honey
Hindustani
Mumbai
in
the
Jai
Shree
Ram
whatsapp
group
has
threatened
Mithun
Rai
that
he
will
be
shot,” Daijiworld
quoted
the
police
complaint.
The
block
Congress
members
have
urged
the
police
department
to
take
necessary
action
to
catch
the
culprit
behind
the
post.
The
report
claims
that
Mulki
block
Congress
president
Mohan
Kotian
has
requested
the
local
administration
to
increase
security
for
Mithun
Rai
in
view
of
the
death
threat
message.
Rai
was
recently
in
the
news
after
claiming
that
the
Muslim
king
had
given
land
to
Udupi
Sri
Krishna
Mutt.
He
made
these
remarks
at
‘Nammora
Masjid
noda
banni’
organised
at
Noorani
Masjid
in
Puttige
in
Moodbidri
taluk.
His
comments
triggered
massive
outrage
with
BJP
leaders
coming
down
heavily
on
him.
Even
Kannada
actor
Rakshit
Shetty
disagreed
with
Mithun
Rai’s
comments.
Without
taking
his
name,
the
actor
had
tweeted,
“The
temple
town
of
Udupi
has
a
written
history
of
more
than
thousand
years…
Why
talk
nonsense
on
a
public
platform
when
you
have
no
idea???”
The
temple
town
of
Udupi
has
written
history
of
more
than
thousand
years…
Why
talk
nonsense
on
a
public
platform
when
you
have
no
idea???—
Rakshit
Shetty
(@rakshitshetty)
March
11,
2023
However,
Mithun
Rai’s
followers
started
attacking
him
as
they
claimed
that
Pejawar
Seer
had
made
those
claims
in
2017.
Rakshit
Shetty
then
shot
back
with
a
tweet,
“Temple
town
of
Udupi
has
Chandramaulishwara
which
is
the
oldest
of
all
temples
and
then
the
Ananteshwara
which
is
the
second
oldest
and
then
comes
the
Krishna
temple.
All
three
temples
are
in
car
street…
I
am
thorough
with
what
I
speak
Sir
🙏”
Temple
town
of
Udupi
has
Chandramaulishwara
which
is
the
oldest
of
all
temples
and
then
the
Ananteshwara
which
is
the
second
oldest
and
then
comes
the
Krishna
temple.
All
three
temples
are
in
car
street…
I
am
thorough
with
what
I
speak
Sir
🙏https://t.co/dHWt5LrKLN
—
Rakshit
Shetty
(@rakshitshetty)
March
11,
2023
The
‘Charlie
333’ actor
then
stated
that
the
Congress
leader
is
his
friend
and
has
nothing
against
him.
“Mithun
Rai
is
a
friend.
Nothing
against
him.
But
a
fact
is
a
fact.
Sri
Pejawar
swami
must
be
talking
about
different
land,”
he
wrote.
Later,
Mithun
Rai
appealed
to
his
followers
not
to
attack
Rakshit
Shetty
while
also
stating
that
he
was
just
quoting
the
words
of
late
Pejawar
seer.
“Whatever
I
have
spoken,
it
was
just
quoted
from
the
speech
of
the
Late
Pejawara
Seer
and
not
my
own,
since
I
am
not
a
historian,” he
said.
He
then
said
that
BJP
was
trying
to
distract
people’s
attention
from
the
real
issues.
—
Mithun
Rai
(@TheMithunRai)
March
12,
2023
“Rakshit
Shetty
might
be
right
in
his
own
terms,
but
I
am
right
from
my
point
of
view
too.
Communal
harmony
is
what
I
preach
like
what
our
respectable
Seer
taught
us,
since
the
Udupi
and
Dakshina
Kannada
is
in
need
of
it.
I
request
all
my
followers
to
put
an
end
to
this
confusion
and
the
created
controversy
and
not
target
our
young
budding
actor
Rakshit
Shetty.
He
is
a
Tuluva.
He
is
our
pride,” the
Congress
leader
said
in
his
message
to
his
social
media
followers.
