Udaipur Beheading Accused Linked To BJP: Fact Or Fake News?

New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday levelled a serious charge against BJP in the Udaipur tailor beheading case.

Congress media department head Pawan Khera and other party leaders shared pictures on social media showing Mohammad Riyaz Attari – one of the alleged culprits in the brutal murder of Kanhaiya Lal — with some local BJP leaders.

They claimed that Attari was a BJP member.

“The killer of Kanhaiya Lal, Riyaz Attari is a member of the BJP,” Khera tweeted.

He also tweeted a picture from a Facebook post to allege that a BJP leader had described Riyaz Attari as a party worker.

Khera linked Attari with local BJP leaders Irshad Chainwala and Mohammad Tahir, and claimed that Riyaz often participated in programmes of the saffron party.

The BJP hit back hard at the Congress, with its IT cell chief Amit Malviya calling it ‘fake news’.

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Malviya, replying to a tweet by Congress leader Renuka Choudhary, said that Congress should stop ‘fooling around’ with terror and national security.

“I am not surprised that you are peddling Fake News. The Udaipur murderers WERN’T members of the BJP. Their attempt to infiltrate was like the LTTE assassin’s attempt to enter the Congress to kill Rajiv Gandhi. Congress should stop fooling around with terror and national security,” Malviya tweeted.

Mohammad Sadiq Khan, BJP’s Minority Morcha chief in Rajasthan, said that photographs can’t be a proof to show he is a party member.

“Anyone can have a photo with any leader. It does not mean that he is a member of the BJP,” Sadiq told reporters.

“He might have gone to some programme of the party to carry out a recce and got photos clicked with local leaders. Since it is a normal trend to upload photos with leaders or celebrities on Facebook and other social media platforms, he might have also uploaded the photo but it does not mean that he is a BJP member,” Sadiq claimed.

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