Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai will meet family members of deceased Praveen Nettaru, a BJP Yuva Morcha member.
According to reports, CM Basavaraj Bommai called a press conference at his residence on Wednesday night and announced that he had cancelled ‘Janotsava’, a mega rally at Doddaballapur that was scheduled to be attended by BJP national President J P Nadda.
He also said the government decided to raise a specially trained commando force in the state to eliminate anti-national and terrorist forces.
Notably, Praveen Nettar, a zilla BJP Yuva Morcha committee member, was hacked to death in front of his broiler shop in Bellare by three bike-borne people on Tuesday night.
A resident of Nettaru in Bellare in Dakshina Kannada district, he was murdered when he was heading to home after closing his shop.
Following the killing, tension prevailed at several places in Dakshina Kannada district on Wednesday.