The gangster Jayesh Pujari revealed to a local newspaper that politician KS Eshwarappa was a target for Pakistan-based terrorists Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Popular Front of India (PFI).
Eshwarappa was reportedly not afraid of threats after giving a “supari” to a BJP leader in Belagavi in Karnataka. In addition, the news organization contacted Eshwarappa himself, who said he did not fear threats. Patriots do not fear anything and he works toward saving Bharat Mata.
Ahead of the Karnataka assembly elections scheduled for this year, Eshwarappa recently announced that he would not run in the elections. He called himself a Hindutvawadi and said nobody could kill Hindutva.
PTI reports that he told the party’s central leadership that he intends to retire from electoral politics after the Karnataka Assembly elections on May 10 and requested that no constituencies be fielded for him.
The Union Minister Nitin Gadkari’s public relations office was received threatening calls from Jayesh Pujari alias Kantha alias Salim Shahir Kantha, a murder convict, first in January and then in March.In the days since Nagpur police had taken him into custody from the jail in Belagavi, officials of the Intelligence Bureau have questioned him.
He was also connected to PFI and LeT, Nagpur Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar said on Thursday. A radicalization process has taken place in him. PTI quoted Kumar as saying that he and other members of D-gang (Dawood gang) were hatching a conspiracy in jail.
A UAPA violation report has been filed against him by the Dhantoli police department.