Facing BJP MP's charge on RSS worker's murder, minister says

Karnataka Urban Development Minister R Roshan Baig today said he was ready for any enquiry as BJP MP Shobha Karandlaje accused him of "being directly involved" in the recent murder of an RSS worker here.
Baig also said he was contemplating legal actionagainst Karandlaje.
"People in Shivajinagar know my style of politics;there are BJP and RSS workers in the area who are my friends. They know about me. Ms Shobha has come from Mangaluru. Shedoesn't know about Shivajinagar. She is doing this forpublicity," Baig, who is also the MLA of the area, told reportershere.
He said he would consult his lawyers regarding filing a defamation case against the BJP leader.

RSS worker Rudresh (35) was allegedly hacked to death by two motorcycle-borne men on October 16. He was with his friends after attending a Sangh event when the incident occurred.
Five persons, including the Popular Front of India (PFI) Bengaluru chief have been arrested in connection with the case so far.

Karandlaje had earlier today said, "It is getting clear that minister Roshan Baig is directly involved in it."
She said many officials had expressed suspicion and the people of the area, police andintelligence officials and "our party workers from the area are saying that Baig had himself got Rudresh killedby giving supari (contract)".

Alleging that Rudresh was killed to "halt his personal growth" and also that of the organisation in the area, she demanded a CBI or an NIA enquiry into the incident and the removal of Baig from the state cabinet.
Also accusing the SDPI (Social Democratic Party of India), the PFI and others of involvement in the murder of several Sangh Parivar activists, Karandlaje sought a ban on these outfits.
Baig claimed that he had opposed organisations such as the SDPI and thePFI and said Rudresh was a "good man" and there was no reason for him to give 'supari' and get him killed.

"I am ready for any kind of an enquiry, whether it is a CBIor an NIA enquiry," the minister said.
The BJP, which had staged protests over Rudresh's murder, had blamed the "unholy nexus of Jihadists and Marxists" for the killing and had named the PFI.