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Stepping up its attack on the Congress government in the wake of a brutal murder of an RSS worker, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday petitioned Governor Vajubhai Vala demanding an inquiry by National Investogation Agency (NIA) into killings of party and RSS activists.
The party has blamed blamed "unholy nexus" of "Jihadists" and Marxists for the killing.
The delegation led by state party chief B S Yeddyurappa and Leader of opposition Jagadish Shettar met Vala and alleged that the Congress government "is bent upon allowing the killers to have a field day", adding that it is not keen to trace the assailants involved in the cases.
Alleging that the Congress is indulging in "vote-bank politics", they appealed to the Governor to prevail upon the state government and hand over the cases to "unearth the motive" of the crimes and "expose" their perpetrators.
Rudresh, a 35-year old RSS worker, was hacked to death by two motorcycle-borne men, who struck him with machete on Kamaraja Road on Ocotber 16 when he was returning home after attending a Sangh event.
Stating that Rudresh's killing was the latest among a series of attacks targetting activists belonging to the "Nationalist School of Thought" in the past two years, the memorandum cited a list of Hindutva activists who had allegedly fallen victim to goons from the Popular Front of India (PFI) party.
"The attacks are executed systematically. In all attacks, the weapons used are more or less the same (long swords and tamancha) and the modus operandi adopted by the attackers is almost the same," it said.
BJP said the attacks have been taking place in quick intervals in various parts of Karnataka, especially in coastal Dakshina Kannada district, and that the attackers are perpetrating the crime with "impunity and escaping with felicity."
Noting that not one case has reached its logical end,it said a disturbing trend has emerged with the Congress government "pre-determining the course of investigation" by "deliberately" making "loaded" remarks, almost immediately after the crime, with a "sinister design" to "prejudice" the investigating officers.
"Our charge is that the government has directed the police to take this line in all such cases involving BJP and Sangh Pariwar Activists," it added.
Alleging that BJP has every reason to suspect that there is a "pattern, a design and a diabolical motive" behind these killings, the party said it also suspects the "unholy nexus of the Jihadists and Marxists", working behind the exceutions.
"Going by the pattern, design and modus operandi, it is almost sure that the workers of the PFI are involved. These elements are being provided with intellectual and moral support by Marxists," it said.
"As far as the diabolical motive is concerned, the PFI, in league with the Marxists, wants a communal flare up so that the BJP and Sangh Pariwar outfits can be blamed. It suits the vote-bank politics of the Congress," it added.
