Shivraj Singh Chouhan slams Kamal Nath after BJP leader’s murder in Mandsaur

One month since taking oath, the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh is facing the heat after two murders took place in 24 hours.

The first saw a BJP leader and civic body chairman Mandsaur, Prahlad Bandhawar (50) shot dead dd in Mandsaur. Meanwhile, the second murder took place in a busy marketplace in Indore where a Sandeep Agarwal a builder and local businessman was killed.

Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who went to Mandsaur to attend the funeral, wrote a letter to his successor CM Kamal Nath and asked for a high-level investigation. He alleged that criminal in MP have suddenly ‘become bold’ after the Congress government came to power.

आज मन दुखी और ह्रदय व्यथित है। मंदसौर पहुंच कर नगर पालिका अध्यक्ष प्रह्लाद बंधावर जी को श्रद्धांजलि अर्पित की और अंतिम यात्रा में शामिल हुआ। pic.twitter.com/ynI3gs88Nt

— ShivrajSingh Chouhan (@ChouhanShivraj) January 18, 2019

This led to a rebuttal from Kamal Nath who, said there was ‘no need for a big investigation’, that the police had two witnesses and asked for the death not to ‘politicised’.

Police officers in Mandsaur state that a man named Manish Bairagi was the main accused and it was a land dispute.

The second murder took place 50 km from a police station.