BENGALURU: Municipal corporators attempted to hoist the saffron flag along with the national flag on Independence Day. The incident took place at Nipani in Belagavi district of Karnataka. Two municipal corporators and cadres tried to hoist the saffron flag. But this attempt was stopped by the Karnataka Police.

The corporators tried to hoist the flag at the municipality building. The incident came after BJP MLA and former minister Sasikala Jolle and the district administration hoisted the tricolour. Vinayaka Vade and Sanjaya Sangaokar, corporators of Nipani Municipality, came with the saffron flag. Later they tried to hoist the saffron flag along with the national flag on the same flagpole. But the police stopped them and sent them back.