Author: PTI
Publication: The Times of India
Date: March 19, 2009
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/RSS_leader_gunned_down_in_Orissa/articleshow/4285565.cms?TOI_latestnews
[Note from the Hindu Vivek Kendra: Clearly
there is a collaboration between the Maoists and the Christian programme for
conversion. And, no secularists will now even whisper that there is a break-down
of law and order in Orissa. It is a Hindu that is killed.]
A local RSS leader, who was arrested in connection
with anti-Christian riots last year, was gunned down by suspected Maoists
in Orissa's communally sensitive Kandhamal district early Thursday.
About 15 armed ultras struck Rudiguma village,
about 145 km from here, in the wee hours and shot dead Prabhat Panigrahi,
who was staying at an RSS activist's house, police said.
A massive combing operation has been launched
to nab the assailants
Additional forces have been deployed in and
around the village as a precautionary measure to prevent any untoward incident.
As the Maoists had blocked the road between
Kotagada and Rudiguma by felling trees, it took longer time for the police
to reach the spot after clearing the road, the police said.
Panigrahi had been arrested for alleged involvement
in communal riots that had rocked Kandhamal after the killing of VHP leader
Laxmanananda Saraswati and four others on August 23, 2008, sources said.
He had been released from Baliguda jail on
bail on March 14.
Panigrahi, who hails from nearby Bandapipili
village, was in the hit list of the ultras, the sources said.
