Family meets Yogi, demands Govt job for son, security; UP CM assures all help
Family members of the Hindu Samaj Party leader Kamlesh Tiwari, who was killed two days ago, met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and demanded capital punishment for the killers.
Tiwari’s mother, wife and three sons met the Chief Minister at his official residence of 5, Kalidas Marg, and stayed there for over 30 minutes.
The Chief Minister assured the family of all help and said police are doing their job and the guilty will not be spared.
Officer privy to the meeting told this reporter that the CM intently listened to the family members who demanded a Government job for Tiwari’s son, security to the family and an arms licence to them for security purpose. They also demanded that Khurshid Bagh should be renamed as Kamlesh Park and a statue should be installed at the park.
Speaking to reporters after meeting the CM, the slain leader’s wife Kiran said, “Yogi has assured every possible action in the matter. We feel satisfied after meeting him. Our demand is that the killers should be given capital punishment.”
Tiwari’s mother Kusuma Tiwari said, “I told the CM I want justice for my son and strict punishment should be given to the killers. We have been assured by the CM.”
However, after reaching Sitapur she changed her statement and said she was not happy after meeting Yogi because he did not look serious and concerned about our plight and his reaction was not sympathetic towards us.
“We were forced to go to Lucknow and meet the CM. The local administration was after us saying the CM wants to meet us. As per Hindu ritual family does not move out of house before tehravi (13-day ritual) still we were forced to go there,” Kusuma told reporters in Sitapur here on Sunday.
“I wanted to ask the CM why his security was reduced but was not allowed to ask this question. The response we wanted or we were looking for from CM was not there,” she said.
Recently a video has surfaced where Kamlesh is seen castigating Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi for reducing his security. In that video he was seen saying he would be killed as some Muslim fundamentalists are after him.
Hindu Samaj Party chief Tiwari, 45, earlier associated with a faction of the Hindu Mahasabha, was killed at his home in Khurshid Bagh here on Friday.
His cremation was delayed as his family members were adamant on meeting the Chief Minister to put forth their nine demands, including a probe by the National Investigation Agency, a Government job for one of the victim’s sons and security for them. The probing team recovered blood stained saffron clothes and a blood stained knife from a hotel in Kaiserbagh police station area in the intervening night on Saturday and Sunday. The teams also got CCTV footage of the suspects donning saffron clothes and carrying a sweet box in a saffron colour carry bag.
The hotel manager in police interrogation told that two suspects had checked in a hotel room on October 17 and left the hotel around 11 am.
Sources in the team probing the case disclosed that the miscreants had fixed a meeting with the slain leader in the morning on same day. “The prime accused who was leading the operation had befriended Kamlesh through facebook and posted message which suited to the slain leader ideology,” they said.
Well placed sources said the teams had netted the suspects and they were being interrogated at some undisclosed location.
On Saturday, police had a breakthrough in the murder case after three persons including the mastermind were taken into custody in Surat city of Gujarat in a joint operation of the police forces of the two States.
Two more arrests were made in Bijnor district of UP where Muslim clerics Mohammed Mufti Naeem Kazmi and Imam Maulana Anwarul Haq were held after being named in an FIR lodged by Tiwari’s wife Kiran.
Tiwari was cremated at his native place in Mahmoodabad after the district administration succeeded in convincing his family members that their demands would be fulfilled.