The Chhattisgarh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded the Election Commission to remove the Director General of Police of the state, terming some incidents in the state as target killing. Apart from this, BJP has demanded transfer of Inspector General of Police of Rajnandgaon and Superintendent of Police of Mohla-Manpur. The BJP unit of Chhattisgarh has made many serious allegations against the government.
After a memorandum to this effect was submitted to the Chief Electoral Officer of the state, MPs Santosh Pandey and Sunil Soni, former minister Ajay Chandrakar made several allegations. He told reporters that after the political and targeted killing of Mohalla-Manpur area BJP leader Birjhu Taram and other BJP workers, he demanded strict action against the killers. Along with this, after the incident, there has been a demand for deployment of Central Security Forces in sensitive and highly sensitive polling stations of Naxal affected areas in the assembly elections.
BJP leaders said that with the announcement of assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, incidents of political target killing are being carried out with the aim of scaring the voters. BJP leaders said that on October 20, BJP leader Birjhu Taram was brutally shot dead in Naxal-affected area Mohla-Manpur. He said that even before the announcement of elections, many such criminal incidents have been stopped with the aim of creating an atmosphere of terror in the state.
Former minister Shri Chandrakar has accused Congress’s Bhupesh government of fearing target killing of BJP workers under police protection in the upcoming assembly elections. He said that in the coming elections, there may be more targeting and betel nut killings of BJP workers under the protection of police. He said that the people of Congress are bent on spoiling the atmosphere by spreading violence during elections by providing protection to power through strongmen. He alleged that target killing and spreading terror through politics of violence has been the permanent character of Congress.