BJP Leader Harnath Singh Yadav: Days after NCP leader Baba Siddique was shot dead allegedly by the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, former Rajya Sabha MP and and BJP leader Harnath Singh Yadav advised actor Salman Khan to “apologise to the Bishnoi community for the big mistake”.
In a post on X, Yadav said, “Dear Salman Khan, the Bishnoi community worships the black deer, which they consider a deity. You hunted it, cooked it and ate it. Due to which the sentiments of the Bishnoi community were hurt and there is anger against you in the Bishnoi community for a long time.”
“People make mistakes. You are a big actor, a large number of people in the country love you. My good advice to you is that you should respect the sentiments of the Bishnoi community and apologize to the Bishnoi community for your big mistake,” Yadav added in a post in Hindi.
Soon after Baba Siddique, a three-time MLA and former Maharashtra minister, was killed near the office of his son, MLA Zeeshan Siddique, in Bandra East on Saturday night, speculation began swirling of a Bishnoi gang link to the daring crime.
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This was confirmed on Sunday after a post on Facebook by one Shubuu Lonkar, believed to be Bishnoi gang associate Shubham Rameshwar Lonkar, claiming responsibility. While Lonkar is in jail, police said the post was made by his brother Pravin Lonkar, who was arrested on Sunday evening.
Notably, some members of the Bishnoi gang were previously apprehended in connection with the firing outside Bollywood star Salman Khan’s residence earlier this year.
In the social media post, Lonkar claimed that Siddique had been killed because he was linked to India’s most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, was close to Salman Khan and because of the death of Anuj Thapan, one of the arrested suspects in the shooting outside Khan’s house, in police custody.
The Bishnoi gang, which became a household name after claiming responsibility for murdering musician Sidhu Moose Wala in 2022, has said it wants to kill Salman Khan because of his alleged involvement in shooting blackbucks at Bawad in Mathania near Jodhpur in September 1998, during the filming of ‘Hum Saath Saath Hain’. The alleged act had upset the Bishnoi community, which considers the blackbuck sacred.
Meanwhile, security has been tightened around Salman Khan’s house – Galaxy Apartments in Bandra – outside which a firing had taken place on April 14.