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Fans demand renaming of circle after Dr Raj

Dr Rajkumar’s fans took out a big procession here on Monday in support of the municipality’s decision to rename Chandramouleshwar circle as Dr Rajkumar circle. The pro Raj organisations argued that the claims of the Chandramouleshwar temple committee members that the circle name should not be changed do not hold water as there is nothing to suggest that the circle was actually named so as per municipal records.

As the municipality has taken the decision, it would not be illegal to name the circle after Dr Rajkumar. Some influential leaders have chosen some circles for naming without prior permission of the Deputy Commissioner or the municipality. Patel circle was one of them.

Though it was illegal, nobody had objected to this, the fans said in a memorandum submitted to the district administration. The Dr Rajkumar faction said that some people acting as devotees have been creating confusion by saying that the circle should not be renamed and this had humiliated the real devotees, they said.

Normally the circles have been named after social reformers and national leaders. In Raichur city only, there were circles named after Mahatma Gandhi Babu Jagjivanram, Dr B R Ambedkar Netaji, Tippusultan, Basaveshwara, and Kanakadasa, they argued.

Dr Rajkumar preached the values of life and naming the circle after him would be appropriate. But circle naming after a god of a community would harm communal harmony, they argued.

The office bearers of the Dr Rajkumar fans association, Kannada Chaluvali Kendra Samithi, Janajagrutha Vedike, forum against injustice, Tharun Bharath Sangha, Shivarajkumar Sena Samithi, Navaratna Yuvaka Sangha, Thayi Bhuvaneshwari Samithi, Dalit Hitha Rakshana Samithi, Ravindranath Tagore Yuvaka Sangha and Karnataka Rakshana Vedike participated in the procession.

Source: http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEK20061212012903&Page=K&
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