{"id":305090,"date":"2018-11-04T09:53:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T09:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305090"},"modified":"2018-11-04T09:53:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T09:53:48","slug":"rajasthan-bjp-worker-shot-at-throat-slit-with-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-bjp-worker-shot-at-throat-slit-with-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan: BJP worker shot at, throat slit with sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299838 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/lynched-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched-487x420.jpg 487w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker in Rajasthan was killed in broad daylight on Saturday, triggering panic in the area ahead of upcoming assembly elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The incident took place in a village, four kilometers from the town of Pratapgarh in southern Rajasthan where the deceased, Samarth Kumawat, was shot at indiscriminately by bike-borne assailants and then they slit his throat with a sword.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Samarth died on the spot and the assailants escaped soon after attacking the BJP worker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Locals sat in protest with Kumawat&#8217;s body and demanded the arrest of the attackers at the earliest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police have assured that action will be taken and the goons will be arrested soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Samarth&#8217;s kin registered an FIR against the accused. According to them, several goons had been threatening Samarth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress leader Ashok Gehlot condemned the murder and said that the perpetrators should be severely punished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I condemn the brutal killing of BJP&#8217;s Sh. Samrath Kumawat in #Pratapgarh, #Rajasthan. Perpetrators of such heinous crime must be severely punished. Pathetic condition of Law n order in state is a matter of grave concern,&#8221; Gehlot tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker in Rajasthan was killed in broad daylight on Saturday, triggering panic in the area ahead of upcoming assembly elections. The incident took place in a village, four kilometers from the town of Pratapgarh in southern Rajasthan where the deceased, Samarth Kumawat, was shot at indiscriminately by bike-borne assailants and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2560,2014],"tags":[453,9485,1478,9484],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305092,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305090\/revisions\/305092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}