“I am not surprised that you are peddling #FakeNews. The Udaipur murderers WERN’T members of the BJP. Their attempt to infiltrate was like the LTTE assassin’s attempt to enter the Congress to kill Rajiv Gandhi.”
Jaipur: The BJP on Saturday vehemently denied links to one of the killers in the gruesome murder of a tailor in Rajasthan’s Udaipur, after the Congress latched on to media reports and social media posts to draw links.
“We have no links to either of the accused,” Sadiq Khan, the chief of the BJP’s minority wing in the state, said at a press conference, repeating that the killing was a failure of the Congress government in Rajasthan. “We have no links to either of the accused,” Sadiq Khan, the chief of the BJP’s minority wing in the state, said at a news conference, repeating that the killing was a failure of the Ashok Gehlot lead Congress government in Rajasthan.
The Congress had alleged that one of the main accused in the brutal killing of a tailor in Udaipur is a “BJP member” and asked whether the center had moved quickly to transfer the case to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to dust it under the carpet.
Senior Congress leader Pawan Khera cited a media group’s “very sensational disclosure” in connection with the Udaipur incident which pointed to the BJP links with Riyaz Attari, also called Riaz Akhtari.
“The killer of Kanhaiya Lal, Riyaz Attari is a member of the BJP,” Mr. Khera also said in a tweet, joining other Congress leaders who posted similar claims.
देखिए कैसे फ़ेस्बुक पर भाजपा नेता मोहम्मद ताहिर सरेआम आतंकी रियाज़ अटारी को भाजपा का कार्यकर्ता बता रहे हैं। pic.twitter.com/QjblPfWJIm
— Pawan Khera 🇮🇳 (@Pawankhera) July 2, 2022
I'm not surprised.. Are you? pic.twitter.com/jVpmARtBue
— Renuka Chowdhury (@RenukaCCongress) July 1, 2022
The claims drew consternation from the BJP’s IT cell head Amit Malviya who rubbished the claims and termed them as “fake news”.
“I am not surprised that you are peddling #FakeNews. The Udaipur murderers WERN’T members of the BJP. Their attempt to infiltrate was like the LTTE assassin’s attempt to enter the Congress to kill Rajiv Gandhi,” Mr. Malviya’s tweet read.
I am not surprised that you are peddling #FakeNews.
The Udaipur murderers WERN’T members of the BJP. Their attempt to infiltrate was like the LTTE assassin’s attempt to enter the Congress to kill Rajiv Gandhi.
Congress should stop fooling around with terror and national security. https://t.co/Nn5FKzxiwS— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) July 2, 2022
Tailor Kanhaiya Lal was killed Tuesday afternoon by two cleaver-wielding men, who posted a spine-chilling video of the heinous act online claiming responsibility for the murder, accusing him of insulting Prophet Mohammed in a social media post.
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