A tailor who extended support to suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma was brutally killed at a shop in Rajasthan’s Udaipur on Tuesday. Two men involved in the killing have been arrested.As tensions built over the killing, chief minister Ashok Gehlot said that those involved in the murder of Kanhaiya Lal would be punished strictly, asking people to remain calm.Within hours of the murder, prohibitory orders banning the assembly of people were imposed across the state for a month and mobile internet services suspended for the next 24 hours.
At 8 pm, curfew was declared till further orders in seven police station areas of Udaipur city.Two men who identified themselves as Mohammad Riyaz and Ghouse Mohammed posted a video online claiming responsibility for the killing and threatened Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
They add, “Narendra Modi, tu ne aag jalaya hai. Hum bhujayenge. (Narendra Modi, you have started the fire. We will douse it.)” They also threaten to kill the prime minister.
