The Tamil Nadu Special Police team probing the murder of the state president of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), K. Armstrong, will soon file the charge sheet.

Sources in the police told IANS that the charge sheet in the Armstrong murder investigations would be filed in a few days. The BSP leader was murdered in broad daylight on July 5 when he was chatting with his brother and friends at Perambur in North Chennai.

The murder of Armstrong, a prominent Dalit leader of the state involved in providing education to students and uplifting them in professional careers, created shock waves in the state. BSP leader and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati attended Armstrong’s funeral. However, his adversaries said he was involved in several big-money land deals and operated his gang.

Immediately after the murder of Armstrong, police swung into action. They arrested 11 people, including Ponnai Balu, the brother of history-sheeter Arcot V.Suresh, who was killed earlier, and there were reports of Armstrong’s involvement in the murder.

The police team shot dead one of the arrested, Thiruvengadam when he was brought to the Madhavaram Lake premises to secure the weapons used to assassinate Armstrong. Police said that they were forced to fire at the notorious criminal after he attacked them. However, there were contradictory reports that the killing was stage-managed, and police had an encounter killing to eliminate Thiruvengadam.

Sources in Tamil Nadu Police told IANS that three gangs were behind the murder of Armstrong, and a notorious history-sheeter Nagendran, who is lodged in Vellore Central prison, coordinated the teams involved in the murder of the BSP leader.

The names of local leaders of all the mainstream political parties had surfaced in the murder case of Armstrong. Police have also zeroed in on the involvement of a few lawyers in the murder case.

Another notorious criminal, Sambo Senthil, and the gang led by Ponnai Balu, brother of slain gangster Arcot Suresh, joined hands with Nagendran to murder Armstrong.

It may be recalled that Nagendran’s son and Youth Congress state office-bearer and practising lawyer, Ashwathaman, was arrested by the police in the murder of Armstrong.

Sambo Senthil, according to sources in the police, had also networked with Nagendran and Ponnai Balu in the assassination of Armstrong.

Police sources told IANS that Senthil had fought Armstrong a few years ago over a property dispute and was nursing a grudge against the BSP leader.

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BJP MP Tejasvi Surya rips apart Kerala’s communist government in Parliament

Balaji Subramanian — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 08:39:25 +0000

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament from Bengaluru South Tejasvi Surya during the Lok Sabha zero-hour yesterday raised the matter of violent suppression of dissent in the CPM-ruled Kerala.

The young MP called the attention of the House the scams of the communist regime in Kerala and the suppression of democratic voices.

“CM Pinarayi Vijayan, true Communist that he is, is following Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot and Castro in violently suppressing dissent,” said Surya.

CM @vijayanpinarayi, true Communist that he is, is following Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot & Castro in violently suppressing dissent

Land of Lord Ayyappa, Adi Shankara, Sri Narayana Guru cant be let to suffer from communist despots

My Zero Hr talk on crimes against democracy in Kerala pic.twitter.com/mum27EfHNy
— Tejasvi Surya (@Tejasvi_Surya) September 16, 2020

The BJP MP accused the communist government of Kerala of suppressing democratic protests by the brutal actions of Kerala Police on the Yuva Morcha Karyakartas. The protestors had taken a rally against the scams of Kerala Government.

Tejasvi Surya highlighted various corruption scams including the high profile Kerala Gold Smuggling Case saying that Communist government Kerala used every public tragedy as an opportunity of personal enrichment.

“From smuggling to drug cartels, housing scam to e-mobility, brewery scam to fraudulent public service commission examinations, to custodial death by police the Kerala communist government has surpassed crimes of every communist regime from Colombia to Venezuela, Cuba to North Korea in just 4 years of governance.

The BJP workers were demanding the resignation of CPM Minister KT Jaleel in Kerala.

The police and left-wing comrades resorted to allegedly brutal tactics when it attacked the karyakartas of ABVP, BJP Mahila Morcha, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha.

Drawing the attention of the house to the police brutality in Kerala, the BJP MP said “The great land of Lord Ayyappa, Adi Shankara and Sri Narayana Guru cannot be let to suffer at the hands of communist despots.”

Kerala is the last bastion of left parties and is known for resorting to political violence by its Communist party members who use intimidation to silence their ideological opponents. To prove this, the J Shamsudeen committee report released in September 2019 gave ample evidence of the Left’s reign of terror in Kerala colleges.

“The students narrated how the SFI activists physically assaulted and verbally abused them for not being a part of the outfit’s activities. They also complained about exam irregularities by SFI workers with the tacit support of college authorities,” Shamsudeen said.

One of the startling reports was the existence of “torture chambers” run by SFI members who would torment students who fail to toe the party line.

The report also shed light on Left-affiliated teachers who turn a blind eye to the illegal activities of SFI leaders.

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