BJP youth leader murder: K'taka govt tighten noose around PFI, announces new special commando force to tackle terror group

Bengaluru, July 27: After the intel, reports suggest 'Radical Islamist group' involvement in the Bharatiya Janta Party's youth leader that sent a shockwave from, Dakshin Karnataka to Delhi, now the Karnataka government announce the new anti-terrorism squad to tackle the 'menace' of such groups.

 

 

K'taka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, gave the information about the latest development, saying that the special task force will operate fully independent of the other enforcement agencies and will only deal with such cases of assassinations, etc. Further, he informed that special arms, ammunition, and training intelligence gathering will be provided to this squad.

 

 

 

"Along with routine investigation, stricter laws and punishment to completely eliminate organisations and individuals involved in such terror activities such as PFI, we have decided to raise a specially trained commando force in the state, along with training and ammunition support for it," the Karnataka chief minister said.

 

It should be noted, as the Union Minister, Pralhad Joshi, has suggested, PFI and its student wing Social Democratic Party of India's involvement in the BJP Yuva leader's murder. While talking to the private media house Joshi said, “Initial indications and a few media stories point to connections between SDPI and PFI. In Kerala, they are being promoted. Congress backed them in Karnataka. Our administration in Karnataka will act and prosecute the offenders.”

 

 

 

 

Besides, several right-wing groups have accused the Popular Front of India (PFI) and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) to be behind the murder.

 

 

On Tuesday, a BJP worker was hacked to death with lethal weapons by unidentified persons on a bike in Bellare, Dakshina Kannada. Interestingly, the eye witness alleged the assailants came on a bike with Kerala’s registration number. The location where the incident happened is close to the Kerala border.

 

Noteworthily, form a few months, a heinous crime against the right-wing members has been rising in South India, especially in Karnataka and Kerala. Last week, an RSS worker was hacked to death by some unidentified miscreants. Similarly, in April 2022, another RSS worker was brutally killed by the PFI workers in Palakkad. The police said that 45-year-old Srinivasan was attacked by a group of assailants at his shop in the heart of Palakkad town.

 

During the investigation of the murder, Kerala police found out that PFI and SDPI created a list in which they had shortlisted more than 100 BJP and RSS activists’ names for murder.