‘No One Is Safe’: Congress, AAP React After INLD Leader Nafe Singh Rathee Shot Dead In Jhajjar

Indian National Lok Dal’s Haryana unit president Nafe Singh Rathee and a party worker were killed after unidentified assailants fired gunshots on their SUV in Bahadurgarh near Delhi on Sunday. 

The death of the INLD leader, ahead of Lok Sabha Elections, drew sharp reactions from across political quarters.

Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij said he has asked officials to take immediate action in this matter. 

“I have asked the officials to take immediate action in this matter. STF has also swung into action…The incident is being investigated,” the Haryana Home Minister said.

#WATCH | Ambala: On Haryana INLD chief Nafe Singh Rathee shot dead, Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij says, “…I have asked the officials to take immediate action in this matter. STF has also swung into action…The incident is being investigated.” pic.twitter.com/EqvKEc6koy

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Haryana INLD leader Abhay Chautala said Rathee and a party worker accompanying him were shot dead. “Nafe Singh Rathee has died. One of our party workers was with him, he has also died,” Chautala said.

The opposition Congress and Aam Aadmi Party also hit out at the Manohar Lal Khattar government over the incident. 

Former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the incident reflects the law and order of Haryana and added that no one is feeling safe in the state.

हरियाणा में इनेलो प्रदेश अध्यक्ष श्री नफे सिंह राठी जी की गोली मार कर हत्या करने का समाचार बेहद दुःखद है।

यह प्रदेश की कानून व्यवस्था को दर्शाता है। इस घटना ने स्पष्ट कर दिया कि कानून व्यवस्था का दिवाला पिट चुका है। प्रदेश में आज कोई भी अपने आपको सुरक्षित महसूस नहीं कर पा रहा…

— Bhupinder S Hooda (@BhupinderShooda) February 25, 2024

“The news of INLD State President Shri Nafe Singh Rathi being shot dead in Haryana is very sad. This reflects the law and order of the state. This incident made it clear that law and order has become bankrupt. Today no one is feeling safe in the state,” Hooda said.

AAP Haryana President Sushil Gupta said the law and order has ended in Haryana and added that “no one is safe in the state.”

#WATCH | AAP Haryana President Sushil Gupta says, “Law and Order has ended in Haryana… We have received info from Jhajjar. The Haryana INLD president Nafe Singh and his associates have been shot dead. No one is safe in this state safe. Businessmen are shot and then extorted,… pic.twitter.com/C4iDa32XCh

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“We have received info from Jhajjar. The Haryana INLD president Nafe Singh and his associates have been shot dead. No one is safe in this state safe. Businessmen are shot and then extorted, politicians are shot dead on roads… Will the state uphold the rule of law, or the CM will continue to be busy with election rallies?” Sushil Gupta said.

Rathee, a former MLA from Bahadurgarh and aged around 70, was travelling in an SUV when the assailants, who were in a car, attacked him in the town in Jhajjar district.