Karnataka BJP president and former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa has said that if Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat, a senior RSS worker is arrested, Karnataka will go up in flames.

Attacking the current Congress government, Yeddyurappa upped the ante by saying that if the police arrest Kalladka Prabhakar, the state of Karnataka will burn. "If Prabhakar Bhat is arrested, then the entire state will go up in flames. The BJP workers will be out on the streets and the Congress government will be to blame if there is a law and order issue," he warned Karnataka government.

Yeddyurappa's inflammatory remarks have not gone down well with the Karnataka government.

Kalladka Prabhakar has been accused of making inflammatory statements and causing communal violence in coastal Karnataka. Earlier last month, Karnataka forest minister Ramanath Rai had been caught on video telling a senior police officer to arrest Kalladka Prabhakar.

Section 144 that had been imposed in Dakshin Kannada following recent communal clashes was lifted 48 hours ago. Violence had escalated following the murder of RSS activist Sharat Madiwala and attack on another activist Chiranjeevi who was grievously injured with a sword.

Madiwala, an RSS worker, was attacked on the night of July 4 when he was about to leave home after closing his laundry shop at BC Road.

A peace vigil called by various leaders in the backdrop of attack on two RSS workers within a span of a week had caused major tension in the area.

The BJP and RSS boycotted the peace meeting by demanding that the cases against BJP leaders Nalin Kumar Kateel, Shobha Karandlaje and Kalladka Prabhakar be withdrawn. Cases were filed against them saying they were disrupting peace through their inflammatory speeches.

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