Jamshedpur : Condemned Maoists‘Attack on the East’ MLA Gurucharan Nayak state on Tuesday BJP Spokesperson Kunal Sarangi on Wednesday alleged that law and order has lagged behind Hemat Soren’s rule.
Around 5.15 pm on Tuesday, when the former BJP MLA from Manoharpur seat was returning from a program in a village school in Goilkera police station area near Chaibasa in West Singhbhum, around 15-20 Maoists attacked the bodyguards of the former MLA. murdered. Two of them fled with three AK-47 rifles before getting injured on the spot and another.
According to Nayak, he managed to save himself by taking advantage of the huge crowd and darkness in the area. Nayak told the police that he hid behind the crowd and managed to escape from the spot without being noticed by the Maoists and reached the nearby police station.
Sarangi questioned that if a former MLA can be easily targeted then what chance do common people have.
He said such attacks are not new in the state, so what was the local police doing when a former MLA was invited to attend a school function in the Maoist-affected area? Sarangi said this showed the gross negligence of the police force and the intelligence department, which had no clue of any such possible attack. He condoled the death of two bodyguards in the attack and demanded a high-level inquiry into the incident.
Jamshedpur MP Sunil Mahto He was killed along with his bodyguards in a similar attack by Maoists near Ghatshila on 4 March 2007. mahto He was there to participate in a football match in the village when the Maoists shot him.
Around 5.15 pm on Tuesday, when the former BJP MLA from Manoharpur seat was returning from a program in a village school in Goilkera police station area near Chaibasa in West Singhbhum, around 15-20 Maoists attacked the bodyguards of the former MLA. murdered. Two of them fled with three AK-47 rifles before getting injured on the spot and another.
According to Nayak, he managed to save himself by taking advantage of the huge crowd and darkness in the area. Nayak told the police that he hid behind the crowd and managed to escape from the spot without being noticed by the Maoists and reached the nearby police station.
Sarangi questioned that if a former MLA can be easily targeted then what chance do common people have.
He said such attacks are not new in the state, so what was the local police doing when a former MLA was invited to attend a school function in the Maoist-affected area? Sarangi said this showed the gross negligence of the police force and the intelligence department, which had no clue of any such possible attack. He condoled the death of two bodyguards in the attack and demanded a high-level inquiry into the incident.
Jamshedpur MP Sunil Mahto He was killed along with his bodyguards in a similar attack by Maoists near Ghatshila on 4 March 2007. mahto He was there to participate in a football match in the village when the Maoists shot him.
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