BJP worker shot dead in Amethi: Smriti urges party workers to exercise restraint, targets Rahul

After one of her close aides was killed here, BJP MP Smriti Irani Sunday asked party workers to exercise restraint, even as she said Congress president Rahul Gandhi's 'take-care-of-Amethi-with-love' message was "loud and clear" to her.

The BJP leader, who arrived here following the death of Surendra Singh (50), said he was killed so that Amethi could be "terrorised, disintegrated and made to bow down".

Irani, who unseated Gandhi from his bastion when results for the Lok Sabha elections were announced on May 23, told reporters "My request to all party workers is that we should exercise restraint."
On May 23, Gandhi had said, "I would like that Smriti Iraniji takes care of Amethi with love and I hope that she will reward the trust that Amethi's people have reposed in her."
Paying tributes to the slain ex-pradhan, Irani said, "The bereaved family of the BJP bows its head before the departed soul of Surendra Singh, and the family of 11 crore BJP workers is standing with his family."