Cops yet to study clip of RSS man’s ₹1-cr bounty

Pressure mounts on MP govt to act over the controversial statement; no complaint against the leader so far

:Madhya Pradesh police are yet to examine a video clipping containing RSS leader Kundan Chandrawat’s ₹1 crore bounty on Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s head even as pressure mounted on the state government to act over the controversial statement.

“We are collecting the video. Once we look into it we will decide on the further course of action,” said MS Verma, the Ujjain superintendent of police.

Verma said no one has lodged any complaint against Chandrawat who was heard in a video clip making the offer. The clip has been widely circulated on social media.

Asked if police can take suo motto action on the video clipping, Verma said police will decide after going through the contents of the video.

Chandrawat has since then expressed “regret” over the statement but added that he had achieved what he had wanted to achieve – highlight attacks on RSS activists in Kerala, allegedly by ruling CPM cadres.

The state government has sought to defend the RSS leader with home minister Bhupendra Singh saying that Chandrawat might have made the statement on a spur of moment and the words might have been an expression of his anger.

Prakash Shastry, RSS’ sanghchalak for the Malwa region, told Hindustan Times that the RSS office-bearer had already expressed his regret over his statement.