Jaipur,Dec 6:
Two days after the Congress lost to the BJP in the Rajasthan assembly election, a political slugfest started over the murder of Karni Sena chief Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi who was shot dead in his home in Jaipur on Tuesday. Karni Sena called Rajasthan bandh on Wednesday over the murder while the BJP which is going to form the government in the state claimed that it was a “revenge plan” of the Congress after losing the state. BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala shared a video of Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi saying that police had input about his security threat but Congress CM Ashok Gehlot reduced his security.
Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi on December 3 tweeted that the Congress lost the election because they ignored Karni Sena.
Incident
Three bike-borne men came to Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi’s house in Jaipur on Tuesday and fired bullets at him.
The shootout incident was caught on the CCTV camera and the footage surfaced on social media.
One of Gogamedi’s security guards sustained bullet injuries as he retaliated. One of the three attackers died in the cross-firing. He was gunned down by his accomplices though police initially said the attacker died from the firing by Gogamedi’s security guards.
Gogamedi’s supporters have called for a bandh on Wednesday in protest over the killing and threatened a statewide shutdown if action is not taken on the matter.
All prominent political leaders of the state including Congress’s Ashok Gehlot, Sachin Pilot, BJP’s Vasundhara Raje, Rajyavardhan Rathore, condemned the killing that took place at a time when the formation of a new government under the BJP was awaited. Congress leader Supriya Shrinate called it the ‘return of jungle raj’ as soon as the BJP came to power.
The BJP has not yet announced any name for the chief minister’s post and said the caretaker government in the state was still under the Congress.
