Mumbai . Shiv Sena Uddhav Bala Saheb Thackeray (Shiv Sena-UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Monday said that he agrees with the claim made by Congress leader Vijay Vadattiwar about Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare over his controversial remarks. Are not. He said that Karkare is a martyr who fought for the country. Vadattiwar had commented on the terrorist attack on 26 November 2008, in which he had said that ATS chief Hemant Karkare was not killed by terrorist Ajmal Kasab.
This comment of Vadattiwar created a stir in the political circles of Maharashtra and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) questioned Uddhav Thackeray's silence on this issue. In Maharashtra, Congress is an ally of Shiv Sena-UBT. Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Assembly Vadattiwar had claimed that Ujjwal Nikam, the prosecution lawyer in the 26 November 2008 terror attack case and BJP candidate for Lok Sabha elections, had hidden the information that Karkare was not killed by Kasab but by a He was shot by a policeman who was associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Raut claimed that the RSS was upset with Karkare as they felt that the ATS led by him (Karkare) had wrongly arrested Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit (in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case).
He said, Hemant Karkare was a martyr. He fought for the country. When Kasab and his gang attacked Mumbai in November 2008, Karkare fought them. Now some people have raised the question that Karkare's martyrdom was mysterious. I don't believe in it. Raut said that IPS officers Ashok Kamte and Tukaram Omble and other policemen were also martyred during the Mumbai terror attacks. The Shiv Sena-UBT MP said, this was a fight against the enemies of the country. Vadattiwar has also termed Nikam as anti-national, to which BJP has expressed strong objection and has written a letter to the Election Commission demanding action against the Congress leader.
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