Udaipur tailor murder | Congress alleges one of main accused is ‘BJP member’

‘Riyaz Attari is a member of the BJP,’ alleged Congress’ media department head Pawan Khera

The Congress on Saturday alleged that one of the main accused in the brutal killing of a tailor in Udaipur is a "BJP member" and asked whether the Centre had moved quickly to transfer the case to the NIA due to this reason.

Addressing a press conference at the Congress headquarters here, party's media department head Pawan Khera said a sensational disclosure has been made by a media group in connection with the Udaipur incident which pointed to BJP links with Riyaz Attari. Some reports have also referred to the accused as Riaz Akhtari.

"The killer of Kanhaiya Lal, Riyaz Attari is a member of the BJP," Mr. Khera said in a tweet after the press conference.

Earlier in the day, responding to a tweet by a Congress leader referring to one of the accused's alleged BJP links, BJP's IT cell chief Amit Malviya dismissed the claim as "fake news".

"I am not surprised that you are peddling #FakeNews. The Udaipur murderers WERN'T members of the BJP. Their attempt to infiltrate was like the LTTE assassin's attempt to enter the Congress to kill Rajiv Gandhi," he tweeted.

"Congress should stop fooling around with terror and national security," Mr. Malviya said.

Tailor Kanhaiya Lal was killed Tuesday afternoon by two cleaver-wielding men, who posted a grisly video of the crime online claiming responsibility for the murder.