Gauri was shot in the name of Amma
500 rounds of bullet fire during training?
Bengaluru, June 16: Killers of journalist Gauri Lankesh used Operation Amma as code word during planning. They used the word Amma instead of Gauri Lankesh throughout their operation, SIT investigation revealed.
The accused have written the details of the murder plot in a dairy in Marathi mixed language. The investigators have decoded the language and also the contact numbers written in it. The investigators have also found two more names of persons that the accused had plotted to kill, officers said.
The accused had used coil phones to contact each other since one year and always used code words while speaking.
Parashuram Vaghmore who is said to be the man shot Gauri Lankesh, has confessed that after agreeing to kill Gouri the person who selected him for the task had trained him to shoot the target with his air gun investigators said.
Investigating officers said that a person from Karnataka had handed over the list of more than 25 rationalist thinkers who speak against Hindutva, to Amol Kale. It included secular thinking leaders and swamiji's, 10 from Karnataka and 16 from other states.
The family members of accused Parashuram Vaghmore has arrived to the city and SIT is investigating them. SIT has questioned Vaghmore's father Ashok Waghmare, mother Janaki Bai and father-in-law Ashok Kambale.
SIT officers stated that, Amol Kale is the main conspirator of Gauri Lankesh murder. Parashuram Vaghmore executed the crime. The search is on for Nihal alias Dada and other two accused in the case.
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Centre spent Rs 76.13 lakh on print media ads for RSS centenary, reveals RTI
New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Culture allegedly spent Rs 76.13 lakh on print advertisements marking the 100-year celebrations of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply.
The information was sought by RTI activist Ajay Basudev Bose, who filed an application seeking details on expenditure incurred by the ministry for advertisements commemorating the RSS centenary.
Bose shared a picture of the reply from the ministry on his official ‘X’ handle.
“It is informed that an amount of Rs 76,13,129 has been spent on advertisement given in various print media by the Ministry of Culture on the occasion of the completion of 100 years of RSS,” the government’s reply stated.
RTI reply shows Min of Culture Govt of India spent a Whopping Rs 76L,13K,129 on Advertisement in Print Media on occasion of 100 yrs of #RSS
— AJAY Basudev Bose (@AjayBos93388306) April 16, 2026
When Everyone knows RSS is Not Registered & Does not Pay any Tax is it justified to spend Tax Payers Money on such Private event??@RSSorg… pic.twitter.com/dW4IUtdNCg
Bose questioned the expenditure in the post X, “when Everyone knows RSS is Not Registered & Does not Pay any Tax is it justified to spend Tax Payers Money on such Private event??”
Reacting to the development, Karnataka’s IT-BT and Panchayat Raj Minister Priyank Kharge also criticised the spending.
In a post on X, he asked why public money was being used for what he described as a “private ideological project.”
"Modi Sarkar spent Rs 76,13,129 of public money on newspaper advertisements to celebrate 100 years of the RSS. Why is Government spending taxpayers money on an unregistered, non-tax-paying organisation to celebrate their centenary?," he added.
Why is public money being used to serve a private ideological project?
— Priyank Kharge / ಪ್ರಿಯಾಂಕ್ ಖರ್ಗೆ (@PriyankKharge) April 16, 2026
Modi Sarkar spent ₹76,13,129 of public money on newspaper advertisements to celebrate 100 years of the RSS.
Why is Government spending taxpayers money on an unregistered, non-tax-paying organisation to… pic.twitter.com/EoZ6Pim3IM
According to reports, the RSS describes itself as a volunteer-based organisation and has stated that it functions as a body of individuals rather than a registered entity.
Founded by Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in 1925, the organisation is marking its centenary year beginning from Vijaydashami in 2025, with the milestone observed on October 2.
