A day after a family of four, including a six-month-old child were killed and their bodies put on fire by unidentified persons in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, none other than a Congress MLA Divya Maderna tweeted, in which she can be heard saying her convoy has been attacked and she feels uncomfortable.
In the video, she is heard saying “I am not safe here. The accused have not been arrested yet. My car has been attacked at 20 places despite the fact that I travelled under police protection. Two days ago, I received a threat. Several police personnel were deployed for my protection. I had stopped my car three kilometres away from the spot and told the SP that I might be attacked. But the SP assured me saying there were proper arrangements. Still, I was attacked.”
The tweet was hardly put out and BJP leader and union minister Piyush Goyal lambasted the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government in Rajasthan for the law and order situation in the state.
“Shameful!” tweeted Goyal. Even its woman MLA is dangerous under Congress’ Jungleraj in Rajasthan, disregarding the protection of other women.
Others were also quick to attack the Ashok Gehlot government the underlining tone of most of those who reacted to the two incidents said that this will be remembered in the history of Rajasthan as the worst form of governance.
Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said and its English translation is thus: Every morning, Rajasthan wakes up to a fresh wound. Laxmikant Bhardwaj, a BJP leader questioned Rahul Gandhi through a tweet asking whether such incidents move his soul and spirit?
Mitesh Jain asked Rahul Gandhi through a tweet that Gandhi wants to speak about Manipur but not about Jodhpur.
Leader of Opposition in Rajasthan Rajendra Rathore took on the Gehlot-government saying that under their rule people are being burnt, shot at, and being slit from the throat.
According to Superintendent of Police (Jodhpur Rural) Dharmendra Singh Yadav, the attacker has been detained. He has been identified as Pappuram (19), the nephew of the victim family’s chief.
Around 4 am, Pappuram allegedly broke into the victims’ farmhouse and killed Poonaram, the family patriarch, his wife Bhanwari, and their daughter-in-law Dahpu. Poonaram was 60 years old. Bhanwari was 55.
He used an axe to slit the necks of the three members, killing them one at a time as they were sleeping. The bodies were then gathered and burned on fire close to the kitchen, according to Yadav.