Raipur

Congress pays tributes to leaders martyred in Jheeram valley incident

Staff Reporter

nHealth minister T S Singhdeo said Jheeram incident was a conspiracy and that the NIA probe could not reveal a few points, which left many questions unanswered.

Each aspect of the incident will be thoroughly probed, he added.

He was talking to media on the sidelines of the condolence meeting organised on the 6th anniversary of the Jheeram valley killing, which was observed as ‘Martyrdom Day’ by the Congress.

Congress leaders paid rich tributes to its party leaders killed in the incident at the function held at Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee headquarters, Rajiv Bhawan, Raipur on Saturday.

On May 25, 2013 the Congress leaders Nand Kumar Patel, Vidyacharan Shukla, Mahendra Karma, Uday Mudiliyar, Dinesh Patel, Yogendra Sharma along with others came under Naxal attack in Jheeram Valley, while participating in a political rally. Many leaders died on the spot, while others succumbed to their injuries later.

Cabinet minister T. S. Singhdeo and senior Congress leaders and ministers such as Shivkumar Dahariya, Dr Premsai Singh, Anila Bhedia, Rajya Sabha member Chaya Verma, MLAs Satyanarayan Sharma, Amitesh Shukla among others were present.

The leaders offered floral tribute on the portraits of the slain leaders and observed two minutes silence in prayer.

The Congress leaders then visited village Tekari-Mandhar native village of late Yogendra Sharma and paid tributes.