Rajat Sharma, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of India TV.
Many revelations were made in the last 24 hours regarding the breach in the security of Parliament. The mastermind of this scandal, Lalit Jha, is in the custody of the police. Lalit Jha told shocking things in this case, one is that he has burnt the phones of the four accused arrested in this case, which means now it will be difficult for the police to get any digital evidence. There will be more difficulties in getting information about who else these people were in contact with. Although the police are not believing Lalit Jha’s words at the moment, they will confirm whether he has really burnt the phones or whether he is trying to mislead the police. The second big revelation was that not six people but a total of eight people were involved in this case. Now Mahesh and Kailash, these two more names have emerged. Both of them are also in police custody. Mahesh is Lalit’s friend and is a resident of Nagaur, Rajasthan. When Lalit had fled from Delhi to Nagaur, Mahesh had arranged a hotel room for Lalit on his ID. It was also revealed that planning for a big scandal in Parliament was going on for several months. Many types of plans were made. Plan A was to apply fire retardant gel on the body and set oneself on fire inside or outside the Parliament, but this plan had to be abandoned due to non-availability of the gel. Plan B was ready, it involved spraying color smoke inside the house, which was done. Everyone’s duties were divided, who would go inside the Parliament, who would stay outside, if someone was caught then who would stay on the other side. Where to run after the uproar, where to stay, who will make arrangements for the stay, how to destroy the evidence. The entire planning was done like professional and trained vicious criminals. Now the biggest challenge before the police is to find out who is behind these people, where they got the funding from, who gave the idea of breaching the security of Parliament and what was the motive behind doing so. The police is searching for answers to these questions but the evidence and information that is being found in this search is limited. Instead of solving the matter, it is getting complicated.
The diary has been found from Sagar Sharma’s house in Lucknow. In it, Sagar has written that after five years now the time has come to bid farewell from home, now is the time to do something big. What does it mean? On Thursday night, Lalit Mohan Jha reached the duty path police station and introduced himself to the policemen present there. The police took him into custody and handed him over to SIT. A person named Mahesh was also with Lalit. He told that he also wanted to enter the Parliament, the police took him into custody and handed him over to the SIT. The court sent Lalit to police custody for 7 days. In the remand application of the police presented in the court, it was again said that the aim of the Parliament attackers was to intimidate the MPs and create anarchy in the country, their intention was to get their demands met by attacking the Parliament. Police say that the color smoke released by these people had clearly written on their canisters that it was dangerous to release it in a public place, but despite the warning, they took this risk and sprayed smoke inside and outside the Parliament. Police claim that during the interrogation so far, Lalit has told that all the accused had met several times in connection with planning the ruckus in the Parliament, and their actual plan was to attack the Parliament on December 14, but when Sagar was arrested a day before, When it was found, it was decided to carry out the attack on the same day. Mahesh and Kailash, who were detained along with Lalit, both are residents of Nagaur, Rajasthan and are cousins. Mahesh was also in touch with Lalit and he came in contact with Lalit through Bhagat Singh Fans Club page. Then both of them became friends. On the day of the attack, Mahesh also wanted to enter Parliament but he could not get the pass. After the attack on Parliament, Lalit had gone to Nagaur where Mahesh got him a room on his ID. Lalit burnt the phones of all the accused in Nagaur itself so that the investigating agencies could not get any evidence of the conspiracy to attack the Parliament. Police have learned that during the last fifteen days, Lalit had talked to many people on phone, some of whom may have been abroad.
From the investigation so far, it seems that the second most important character in this case after Lalit was Mysore’s Manoranjan Gowda. After studying IT engineering, Manoranjan left the job after working for a few days. He used to take money for expenses from his parents only. India TV correspondent T Raghavan told that the Intelligence Department of Karnataka has collected many information about Manoranjan Gowda. It has been learned that Manoranjan often used to go from Mysore to Bangalore on the pretext of some work. It was in Bangalore that he met Sagar Sharma. Manoranjan had come to Delhi many times before. Manoranjan had taken only three thousand rupees from his family to go to Bangalore, although he had come to Delhi by flight. The flight ticket from Bangalore to Delhi costs seven thousand rupees. According to intelligence reports, Manoranjan Gowda has also gone abroad several times. He traveled to Cambodia, Singapore and Thailand. Now the question is who was paying for these foreign trips to Manoranjan? The investigating agencies suspect that the accused were receiving funding from abroad. On the other hand, politics in Bengal has become heated due to Lalit Jha’s pictures with Trinamool Congress MLA Tapas Roy. BJP MP Locket Chatterjee showed a photo in which Lalit Jha is seen standing with Trinamool councilor Tapas Rai. On Friday, Tapas Rai said that this photo is 4 years old and he does not know who were the other people standing in this photo.
I do not find any truth in the fact that the accused who created terror in the Parliament were unemployed, hence wanted to raise their voice, nor do I believe that they all met through Bhagat Singh Fans Club and carried out such a dangerous act. Till now these people have told less to the police and hidden more. If the matter was so simple then why did mastermind Lalit Jha remain missing for 48 hours? What evidence did he destroy during this period? If there is really no one behind these people then why did Lalit Jha burn the mobile phones of the four accused arrested earlier? What did he want to cover up? If the police had found the phones, they would have known whom these people met before committing the crime, whom they talked to, who gave them funds or talked about burning their mobile phones to mislead the police. The truth is yet to come out. The secrets of the connections of these people are still yet to be revealed. These people are busy blaming each other. BJP leaders showed Lalit Jha’s photo with a TMC leader. Showed the photo of the second partner’s lawyer with Teesta Setalvad. However, having a photograph with someone cannot be proof of conspiracy. But a wall of doubt definitely arises. Congress leaders are after the fact that the passes of these accused were made by BJP’s Mysuru MP. Someone also said that these people were selected for this work only a year ago. Among the states from which he comes, there are BJP governments in UP, Maharashtra and Haryana. When the plan was made, there was a BJP government in Karnataka also. The Parliament pass was also made by a BJP MP. Is this a coincidence or an experiment? Before this could be answered, the work of Parliament came to a complete standstill, there was no chance for debate or discussion. The opposition demands that Home Minister Amit Shah should come to Parliament and give a statement and there should be a debate on this entire incident. I am surprised to see why the Home Minister’s statement in Parliament became such a big issue. The Speaker took responsibility, told Parliament that an investigation was underway. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi gave the information. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh also said that there will be measures to strengthen security. After this, the opposition parties should have been satisfied with this but if they did not agree then Amit Shah could have come to the House and said the same things which he said to the media. If the Home Minister could have come to the House and given the same assurances which the Speaker and the Defense Minister gave, then perhaps this issue would not have become so big. Even after this, if the leaders of the opposition parties had created a ruckus, the entire blame would have been on their heads. (Rajat Sharma)
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