Bengaluru, Sep 11: Two former Naxalite leaders who had surrendered in Karnataka today rejected the union government’s claim that there was a hand of naxalites in the killing of journalist Gauri Lakesh.
Speaking to reporters here, the former naxal leaders Sirimane Nagaraj and Noor Sridhar rejected claims by Union Law Minister Ravishankar Prasad that leftist forces could be behind the killing and said ‘there was no bad blood between active naxals and Gauri who was trying to bring the leftist extremists to main stream in Karnataka’.
Mr Nagaraj said the naxal operatives though believed strongly naxal ideology, social and political understanding of the left beliefs did not attack civilians and ‘not in a single instance’ killed a journalist, in the past.
‘In Karnataka, the Naxal operatives had taken a stand that there was no need for an armed movement.
So any claims that these operatives taking to arms and killing social thinkers and rationalist is unfounded,’ he claimed.(UNI)
Speaking to reporters here, the former naxal leaders Sirimane Nagaraj and Noor Sridhar rejected claims by Union Law Minister Ravishankar Prasad that leftist forces could be behind the killing and said ‘there was no bad blood between active naxals and Gauri who was trying to bring the leftist extremists to main stream in Karnataka’.
Mr Nagaraj said the naxal operatives though believed strongly naxal ideology, social and political understanding of the left beliefs did not attack civilians and ‘not in a single instance’ killed a journalist, in the past.
‘In Karnataka, the Naxal operatives had taken a stand that there was no need for an armed movement.
So any claims that these operatives taking to arms and killing social thinkers and rationalist is unfounded,’ he claimed.(UNI)
