Parliament intruder Manoranjan wanted to replicate Bhagat Singh’s act: Police

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New Delhi, Dec 14, 2023: Manoranjan D, one of the two intruders who jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from the visitors’ gallery on Wednesday, was associated with a social media page called ’Bhagat Singh Fan Club’ and wanted to replicate Bhagat Singh’s act of throwing bomb into the Central Assembly, police said.

The officials also mentioned that he appeared to be of a "revolutionary type".

 

"We didn’t come across any criminal background. He was a very quiet person but looking at the books he read, he appeared to be a ’revolutionary type’," a senior police officer told news agency PTI.

Another officer also said that Manoranjan seemed to be an admirer of Bhagat Singh, who had symbolically bombed the Central Assembly in Delhi.

"It appears like they wanted to replicate what Bhagat Singh and group did during the freedom struggle," the officer said.

Neelam Devi, who protested outside Parliament on Wednesday, also posted a picture of herself with a portrait of Bhagat Singh, and she participated in the wrestlers’ protest that took place in Delhi earlier this year.

Neelam, in her last post on X (formerly Twitter) before the Parliament attack, had questioned why there wasn’t a 50 per cent quota for women in Parliament and legislative assemblies.

In a major security breach on the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament terror attack on Wednesday, Manoranjan and his accomplice Sagar Sharma jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from the public gallery during Zero Hour. They shot slogans and released yellow gas from canisters before being overpowered by some MPs.

Simultaneously, Neelam and another accused, Amol Shinde, protested outside the Parliament, spraying coloured gas from canisters and shouting "tanashahi nahi chalegi (dictatorship won’t work)" outside Parliament premises.

Five people, including these four, have been arrested and charged under stringent anti-terror laws.

Courtesy: India Today