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An accused successful the sensational execution of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh is contesting the January 15 Jalna Municipal Corporation polls successful Maharashtra arsenic an autarkic candidate.
Shrikant Pangarkar is successful the fray from ward 13. His opponents are candidates from the BJP and respective different parties, though the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena has not fielded a contestant.
Incidentally, up of the November 2024 Assembly elections, Pangarkar had joined the Shiv Sena. However, pursuing an outcry, Shinde kept his induction into the enactment successful abeyance.
Gauri Lankesh was changeable dormant extracurricular her residence successful Bengaluru, Karnataka, connected September 5, 2017, a execution that made nationalist headlines, triggering a fierce statement implicit liberalism, secularism and communalism successful the backdrop of the governmental alteration successful the state since 2014.
Pangarkar was a subordinate of the Jalna Municipal Council from the undivided Shiv Sena betwixt 2001 and 2006. He joined the right-wing Hindu Janjagruti Samiti aft the Shiv Sena denied him a summons successful 2011.
He was besides arrested successful August 2018 by Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) successful transportation with the seizure of crude bombs and weapons from antithetic parts of the State. Pangarkar was booked nether the Explosives Act, the Explosive Substances Act and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) astatine the time.
He was granted bail by the Karnataka High Court connected September 4, 2024 successful the Gauri Lankesh execution case.
