RSS leader hacked to death on busy Bengaluru street

mangaloretoday-PTI

Bengaluru, Oct 16: A 35-year-old RSS and BJP leader was hacked to death by two motorcycle-borne youths in full public view on a busy stretch less than a kilometer from MG Road in the heart of Bengaluru on Sunday morning.

Rudresh R, mandal president of the Shivajinagar shakha of the RSS and secretary of the BJP Shivajinagar, was returning on his bike after participating in a ’patha sanchalana’ (route march) in the vicinity of RBANMS Grounds.

 

He stopped his bike around 11.30am in front of a photocopying shop next to Radhakrishna temple on Kamaraj Road and was talking to three of his friends — Kumar, Hari and Jairam — when two men on a black Pulsar bike attacked him.

Rudresh was immediately put into an autorickshaw and rushed to Bowring Hospital where he was declared brought dead. A real estate agent, Rudresh was also into milk business. He was a resident of Milkmans Colony in Shivajinagar.


He is survived by his wife Vidya and two children.


The news of the murder spread and soon scores of RSS activists descended in front of the Commercial Road police station and staged an impromptu protest. They demanded the arrest of Rudresh’s killers.

The protesters blocked Commercial Road for over an hour, causing a huge traffic jam on the premier shopping avenue. They later moved to the spot where their colleague were killed and sat on dharna. The protesters set an 8pm deadline for the police to arrest Rudresh’s killers.