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Ramchandra Guha sent legal notice for linking Gauri Lankesh's murder to BJP, RSS

Kashmir Times. Dated: 9/12/2017 12:13:46 PM

DELHI, Sep 11 (Agencies): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has sent a legal notice to historian Ramchandra Guha for linking Gauri Lankesh's murder to BJP and RSS.
Guha had said that even if the BJP or the RSS were not directly involved in the journalist's killing, the ruling dispensation had enabled a climate of hate and suspicion making it possible.
He had added that 'freelancers' who actually commit these acts were emboldened by politicians and ideologues.
Guha had further written, in an article in a leading Daily, that the political climate at present was more poisonous than at any time since the Emergency.
Senior Kannada journalist was shot dead by unidentified assailants at her residence in Bengaluru on September 05. Senior journalist Gauri Lankesh shot dead in Bengaluru
Gauri, aged 55, had returned home in her car and was opening the gate when motorcycle-borne assailants had fired at her indiscriminately with two bullets hitting her in the chest and one on her forehead. She had died instantaneously.
She edited Kannada tabloid 'Gauri Lankesh Patrike' besides owning some other publications.
Born in 1962, Gauri was the daughter of legendary Kannada journalist P Lankesh. Her siblings, Kavitha and Indrajit Lankesh, are film and theatre personalities.