Saswat Panigrahi
Five years ago on this sacred day of Janmashtami, revered Hindu
monk Vedanta Keshari Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati was brutally murdered in his
Jaleshpata hermitage in Kandhamal during a spiritual discourse. In a gruesome
act, the assailants pumped bullets into the frail body of the 84-year-old
Swamiji and four others on August 23, the day on which Janmashtami fell in
2008.
It is important to recall
that after the gruesome killing of Swami Laxmanananda and four others, Chief
Minister Naveen Patnaik had promised to book the culprits expeditiously. Two
commissions of inquiry have been formed to investigate Laxmanananda’s murder.
Five long years have passed since the macabre murder of Swamiji and four of his
associates. But the killers and conspirators are still at large. This questions
the sincerity of the BJD Government in cracking the case.
As I was writing the piece,
the fast-unto-death by senior BJP leader Ashok Sahu to press for bringing the
perpetrators and conspirators of Swamiji’s killing to justice, reached day 5.
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