The former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa kicks off the Savarkar Rath Yatra in Mysore - against the backdrop of communal tension & clashes over posters of VD Savarkar being put up in the state. The Congress says invoking the name of Savarkar, the Hindutva mascot, is to keep the communal pot boiling, while some in the BJP would argue that a Hindu rashtra is inevitable.