Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Jul 18: A delegation comprising BJP leaders from Karnataka led by state BJP president, B S Yeddyurappa, met union home minister, Rajnath Singh, at New Delhi on Monday July 17 and urged him to order probe by National Investigation Agency (NIA) into 24 unresolved politically motivated murders in Karnataka including the recent killing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activist, Sharath Madiwala, at B C Road.
The delegation comprised of BJP leaders from coastal Karnataka, union minister, D V Sadananda Gowda, MPs, Shobha Karandlaje and Nalin Kumar Kateel. The leaders, who met the minister led by Yeddyurappa, also urged the home minister through a memorandum to ban organizations, Karnataka for Democracy and Popular Front of India.
Sharath Madiwala
The delegation claimed that after the Congress government under Siddaramaiah took over reins of Karnataka, political vendetta has become the order of the day. In addition to demanding NIA probe into the 24 politically motivated killings, it demanded for opening of a branch of NIA in the city and to pass suitable instructions to the state government about the deteriorating law and order situation in the state.
Speaking to media persons after meeting the union home minister, Yeddyurappa alleged that the state government, instead of bringing the killers in these cases to book, has been shielding them. "In all cases Hindu activists were killed in the same manner. There is suspicion that the killers were provided with special training. Therefore NIA alone can bring out the truth," he stated. He said that the delegation has extracted assurance from Rajnath Singh that Sharath Madiwala murder case investigation would be entrusted to NIA.