Sri Ram Sene Chief Pramod Muthalik lashed out at critics of PM Modi. At a public gathering, Muthalik defended the Prime Minister for not speaking up against the murder of rationalists. He went on to call murdered veteran journalist Gauri Lankesh a dog. He said, why should the PM react if a dog dies in Karnataka. He later defended himself saying that what he meant was the pm cannot comment on every death across the country.