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26 Feb, 11 tweets, 3 min read
A sitting, 7-time MP of Lok Sabha commits suicide but no one considers it newsworthy?

He leaves behind a detailed note saying who drove him to it but no one is clamouring for an investigation?

Guess why. The note names ex-BJP MLA. That is why.
BJP Under Lens After Ex-MLA Named in MP Delkar’s Suicide Note

Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, on his part, has said that Delkar will get justice in his state.
thequint.com/news/india/bjp…
Abhinav Delkar, the son of Mohan Delkar has claimed that the constant harassment meted out to his father and his supporters from the local administration (headed by the ex-BJP MLA)and his father’s helplessness at not being able to help his supporters led him to take his own life.
Abhinav said that many of Delkar’s supporters and tribal workers had been sacked from their jobs in a local government school because they had supported him in the zilla parishad elections.
“These people would come to my father seeking help. But he was helpless as the local administration was not willing to give either them or my father a fair hearing,” he added.
Abhinav further said that his father decided to die by suicide in Mumbai because he was aware that he would not get justice in Dadra and Nagar Haveli. “He knew that if he had to end his life here, the suicide note would have vanished and no case would have been registered,”
He added that earlier, two government employees had died by suicide owing to harassment. “One of them had even left a suicide note behind naming officials, but nothing happened.”
“Why should we ask for investigation, isn’t Mumbai Police doing it?” They are.

But, the UT he was MP of, where he lived has no responsibility to investigate the allegations? No one wants a CBI inquiry now?

We all know what an uphill task it will be for Mumbai Police in BJP land

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