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“We Have No Link With Udaipur Killer”: BJP After Congress Alleges Connection

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“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.

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.

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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