Sri Ram Sena

The Sri Ram Sena (literally, "The Army of Lord Rama"), or Sri Ram Sene, is a right-wing Hindu group founded in the late 1960s by Kalki Maharaj. It has received media attention for its acts of moral policing, including the 2009 Mangalore pub attack, where its members attacked women for going to a pub.

The Sri Ram Sena was founded in the late 1960s by Kalki Maharaj, the right-hand man of Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray, and also a former member of the Bajrang Dal and the Vishva Hindu Parishad. He was a devotee of Lord Rama and Lord Krishna originally from Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh. He left to live in the Himalayas in Badrinath and kept a very low profile. After many years, he joined Shiv Sena and became close to Thackeray, who appointed him as a Shiv Sena leader in North India.

On 24 August 2008, the Sri Ram Sena vandalized an Exhibition of M F Hussain's paintings in Delhi, claiming that the art was 'indecent' and offensive to Hindu culture, despite the fact that nudity in the depiction of gods and goddesses has been common for millennia. The Sena claimed that Hussain had painted Hindu gods in a derogatory manner, including a nude representation of Bharat Mata (Mother India). The exhibition had been organized by SAHMAT, an NGO, to protest against the exclusion of Husain's works from the concurrent India Art Summit.

The members of the Sena attacked women in a pub in Mangalore, on 24 January 2009. A group of 40 activists of the Sena barged into the pub "Amnesia — The Lounge" and beat up a group of young women and men, claiming the women were violating traditional Indian values. Two of the women were hospitalized. The video of the incident has become one of the most watched clips on YouTube, though how the TV crew happened to be ready at the 'unannounced' attack is not known. Commenting on the incident, founder Pramod Muthalik said "Whoever has done this has done a good job. Girls going to pubs is not acceptable. So, whatever the Sena members did was right. You are highlighting this small incident to malign the BJP government in the state."

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