Achi news desk-
Exactly 11 years ago, on May 25, 2013, the largest political massacre in the country took place. Naxalites attacked the Parivaartan Yatra of the Congress in Bastar’s Jiram Valley. This orgy of red terror made Nand Kumar the then state president of the Congress
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In November 2023, the Supreme Court gave the final decision on this matter. The court said the state government can investigate it again if it is related to a larger conspiracy. In such a situation, now the new government of the country has to decide how it investigates this matter.
At the same time, the victims of this massacre still carry with them the wounds and the evidence of violence. Congress leader Shiv Singh Thakur, who lives in Srinagar area of Raipur, was also shot in this attack. Even today bullet particles are stuck in 7 places on the back.
On May 25, 2013, a Congress convoy was attacked in the Jiram Valley.
MRI cannot be performed because of bullet particles
Shiv Singh says I was also involved in Congress Privartan Yatra. Blood spread around after the attack. Naxalites killed our leaders and security personnel. During this period I was also hit by a bullet and bullet fragments. At that time I was brought directly from Gagdalpur to Raipur. The doctors removed the bullet, but 7 particles from the bullet are still stuck in the body.
Shiv Singh says that several years ago he was asked to undergo an MRI due to a cervical problem but his MRI was stopped at the last minute due to bullet particles. After that, another treatment is done with the help of x-rays.
The officers look suspiciously during the security checks
If you have to take a flight to leave the city, then during the security check at the airport, during the metal detector check, a beep is heard, because of this the security officials look at him with suspicion. Shiv Singh says that every time he has to answer the question of where the bullet particles in his body came from.
In many places he was also asked for documents about this. Not only that, even when I go to the yeshiva or the residence of any great leader, where there is a high security area, there were many arguments with the security personnel on this issue. The security officers allow entry only after Jeram is informed of the incident.
Parivartan Yatra final photo… in which former CM Ajit Jogi, VC Shukla, Nandkumar Patel, Mahendra Karma and Phulo Devi Netam are present. Behind are Chulshwar Chandrakar and Surendra Sharma.
NIA did not even accept the statement and file the charge sheet
Regarding the investigation of the Jiram case, Shiv Singh Thakur says that how the NIA investigated this case, one can guess from the fact that even after witnessing the incident and being shot, the NIA did not even take the statement. Shiv Singh says we can feel sad only if we remember the event. Now only God will judge.
After the incident, then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi came to see the injured Surendra Sharma.
Jiram attacked political conspiracy- Surendra Sharma
Surendra Sharma, who was injured in this massacre, says it was a political conspiracy, but who was behind it? It is not yet known. An attempt was made to investigate, but justice was not achieved. It was the first such attack on any political organization in the world.
He said that after he was shot, he was brought to Ripor for treatment. The day after the incident, then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi came to Raipur to see all the injured.
These leaders, the victims of the Jiram attack, have now joined the BJP.
Many Congress leaders who were in the convoy during the Jiram attack are now in the BJP.
Motilal Soho – Raipur Rural MLA Motilal Sahu was in the Congress at the time of the Jiram incident. Sahu was also injured in that attack, but in 2014 itself he left the Congress and joined the BJP. After that, the party gave him tickets in both the 2018 elections and the 2023. This time Soho won.
Anjay Shukla – Anjay Shukla, who was then in the Congress, was injured in the Jiram attack. Anjay left the Congress and joined the BJP only a few years after this incident. Anjay Shukla has not contested the elections yet, but is working with the organization.
AJ Singh – Ajay Singh, who was a member of the Youth Committee in the Congress government, was also with the Congress convoy during the Privartan Yatra in the Jiram Valley. During the Congress government, Ajay Singh was angry with Bijapur MLA Vikram Mandvi. Due to the controversy, he was expelled from the party. Angered by the unilateral action, Ajay Singh joined the BJP.
Chouleshwar Chandrakar- Choleshwar Chandrakar, who was injured in the Jiram attack, also joined the BJP this year. He said that the Congress workers who were injured in the Jiram attack were dismissed by the party leaders. The Congress, called the Party of Renunciation, Atonement and Sacrifice, is no longer the same today.
Chandrakar says that before he joined the government, Bhupesh Bagal kept saying that the evidence of Jiram’s culprits was in his pocket. The Congress government left, but they could not present the evidence.
Shivnaryan Dwivedi- After the Jiram attack, Shivnarayan Dwivedi resigned, accusing the party of ignoring the victims. He then joined the BJP. Soon after, Dwivedi became disillusioned with the BJP and joined the Aam Aadmi Party.
After that, he returned to the Congress from the Aam Aadmi Party on 24 September 2022. Davidi has now founded the Jiram Victims Association. He says that the victims hope for justice and will now present their demands to the governments through the Sangh.
The NIA investigation said- Naxalites continue to carry out such incidents to spread terror.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which investigated this massacre for the first time, accusing about three dozen Naxals, said in its conclusion – Naxalites continue to carry out such incidents to spread their terror.
The investigation report of the Legal Committee to the Governor
In the case, the Jiram Valley Judicial Inquiry Committee headed by Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra submitted the inquiry report to the then Governor Anusuya Uike on November 7, 2021. This report was prepared in 10 volumes and 4,000 184 pages. This report was given on By Santosh Kumar Tiwari, Secretary of the Jiram Murder Investigation Commission and Registrar of the Chhattisgarh High Court.
This report was tabled in the assembly, but not made public. It was said that the then government was not satisfied with this report. Hence, a second commission of inquiry was set up, but BJP leader Dharamlal Kaushik stayed in the High Court regarding the legality of this new commission of inquiry.
With the formation of SIT, NIA found no documents related to the investigation.
The Congress government was formed in Chhattisgarh in December 2018. In January 2019, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was formed to investigate the Jiram Valley incident. But, NIA has not provided the FIR and other documents related to the investigation. In such a situation the investigation could not even begin.
Advocate Sudeep Srivastava says the NIA was a criminal probe and the Justice Commission’s probe was about security. The two investigations are completely different. In the 2 charge sheets presented by the NIA, it was stated that the local Naxalites from Bastar carried out the incident. There was no big conspiracy behind it.
When this report came, the victims were not happy with it. At the time Daulat Rohra, close to VC Shukla, demanded a CBI inquiry. His demand was ignored. Daulat Rohra died on 20 April 2023.
Many new FIRs were again registered in the case under the Congress government.
Advocate Sudeep Srivastava said the Center refused a CBI probe. The state then set up the SIT, but the NIA refused to hand over its investigation log to the SIT. After that, Congress leader Jitendra Mudaliar filed a fresh FIR and an investigation into the matter began In such a situation, now the new government of the country has to decide how it investigates this matter.
