A day after the chief of the Shri Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi was shot dead by unidentified attackers in Jaipur, Rajput community outfits called for a Rajasthan bandh on Wednesday, as reported by news agency ANI. This incident came two days after the Bharatiya Janata Party defeated Congress in the Rajasthan Assembly elections. After the incident, the BJP and the Congress claimed that the law-and-order scenario deteriorated under other's dispensation.
Members of the Rajput community sat in protest against Gogamedi's murder in Jaipur.
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- Gogamedi was shot dead in the living room of his house in Rajasthan's Jaipur by three armed men, one of whom was also killed in retaliatory firing, police said, as reported by news agency PTI. The incident was caught on CCTV. Shyam Nagar police arrived at the scene and combed through CCTV video for any information regarding the attackers. Two other individuals were hurt during the incident, according to authorities, News 18 reported.
- One of Gogamedi's security guards sustained bullet injuries in the exchange of fire with the assailants, who had gone to the Karni Sena leader's house in Jaipur's Shyam Nagar area on the pretext of meeting him, police said, as reported by PTI.
- Gangster Rohit Godara asserted accountability for the killing of Gogamedi in an alleged post on social media platform Facebook. According to the post purportedly from Godara's account, the action was taken against Gogamedi due to his alleged collaboration with their adversaries.
- Godara is affiliated with the gang led by Lawrence Bishnoi and his chief associate Goldy Brar. This criminal group faces accusations of orchestrating the assassination of the renowned Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala in May 2022.
- Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat lashed out at the previous Congress government in the state for the law-and-order situation, saying this is the adverse effect of the way "gang wars have flourished" in the desert state since the time of the Ashok Gehlot government. "Due to the threats that Karni Sena president late Sukhdev Singhji had received, he had filed a police complaint and also warned the administration about it. But unfortunately, security was not provided at the level at which it should have been provided," he told PTI at the Parliament complex here. Those who have committed this heinous act should be immediately arrested and given severe punishment, Shekhawat added.
- Speaking on the incident, Union minister Rajyavardhan Rathore said expressed "shock" over the incident and assured people that making Rajasthan crime-free is first priority for the BJP as soon as the saffron party government takes oath
- "Shocked by the news of the killing of Shri Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi, the national president of Shri Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena. We are committed to arresting the accused as soon as possible. I assure the people that making Rajasthan crime-free is our first priority as soon as the BJP government takes oath," party leader from the state and former said.
- Senior Congress leader Pramod Tewari claimed that the courage of criminals in Rajasthan has gone up just after the information that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is coming to power in the state. "It was under the Congress regime that culprits were nabbed within four hours. If in Jaipur, the capital, this is the situation, then you can imagine for yourself," he said, as quoted by PTI.
- Congress leader Rajeev Shukla pointed out that the Karni Sena president was killed only days after his party was voted out of power in Rajasthan. "They (BJP) created a huge ruckus over the issue, you know which one, during the polls. What is their reply on this? The killing of the Karni Sena president is wrong. Justice was being done under the Gehlot government and as soon as it left, the problem has started," Shukla said, as quoted by PTI.
- Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi had already received threats from Sampat Nehra of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. He also alerted the Jaipur police about the threat.