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Congress leaders, including survivors of the 2013 Jhiram Ghati Naxal attack, connected Tuesday (December 23, 2025) demanded an apology from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president J.P. Nadda for claiming that Congress insiders facilitated the attack.
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Mr. Nadda had connected Monday (Decemvber 22) alleged that immoderate insiders led to the sidesplitting of State Congress leaders.
State Congress president Deepak Baij said Mr. Nadda had breached each decorum for governmental rhetoric.
“Mr. Nadda’s connection volition not erase the stigma of Jhiram from the BJP’s forehead. Congress mislaid an full procreation of its leaders successful the Jhiram attack, and astatine that clip the Bharatiya Janata Party was successful powerfulness successful the State,” helium said.
He added that the BJP had been successful powerfulness astatine the Centre for the past 12 years and questioned wherefore justness was not fixed to those who mislaid their lives.
“Why did the National Investigation Agency [NIA] not question the past Chief Minister Raman Singh? Why has the NIA not been capable to scope the perpetrators of the Jhiram onslaught to this day?” asked Mr. Baij.
He further questioned the information gaps connected the time of the onslaught successful which 32 people, including apical Congress leaders were killed.
“Even today, the radical of Chhattisgarh privation to cognize wherefore the information for the Congress’s Parivartan Yatra was removed from a highly Naxal-affected area. For the BJP, the Jhiram massacre whitethorn person been simply a mistake by its past authorities oregon a conspiracy. For the Congress, Jhiram is an irreversible wound. This incidental is an indelible stain connected the country’s democracy. Congress mislaid an full procreation of its leaders successful Jhiram,” helium said.
At a property league successful Raipur, Congress leaders Malkit Singh Gaidu and Shiv Singh Thakur, some survivors of the Jhiram attack, besides criticised Mr. Nadda and said helium should supply evidence.
