The latest report that Yogi Aditya Nath was among top Indian leaders on the hit checklist of terror group Islamic State (IS) underlines the risk perception to the UP chief minister. He has long been on the hit list of militant organizations, but a murderous attack on him about a decade ago was carried out not by any terror outfit, but home-grown subversive elements in Azamgarh.
The assault on his convoy in Azamgarh on September 7, 2008, and the within the story of how he survived, has been documented in ‘Yogi Aditynath: The Increase of A Saffron Socialist’ printed by Occasions Team Books. Prepared by TOI journalist Pravin Kumar, the ebook will be formally unveiled at Occasions Litfest Delhi 2017 on Sunday. The ebook claims that Yogi was on his way to address an anti-terrorism rally in Azamgarh to counter rival get-togethers whose leaders experienced started out building a beeline to the house of Abu Basheer, arrested for his alleged purpose in Ahmedabad blasts in July 2008.
According to the ebook, “Many saffron organizations, led by the Hindu Yuva Vahini, introduced that they would hold a rally against terrorism in Azamgarh. Yogi was to be the chief speaker at the rally slated to be held at the DAV floor on 7 September 2008. On the early morning of the rally, a fleet of 40 motor vehicles started out from Gorakhnath Temple. Since it was feared that they could confront hostilities in Azamgarh, Group Yogi was effectively geared up. In the convoy, Yogi’s red SUV was the seventh in amount.
Having said that, nothing experienced geared up them for what was going to crop up on the outskirts of Azamgarh. By the time the convoy came nearer to Azamgarh, it already experienced a hundred four-wheelers and quite a few a lot more motorcycles. Aside from, immediately after intelligence inputs about the risk of an assault, a Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) device was also subsequent the fleet. But no person realized what could be the position or variety of the assault.
At 1.20pm, just as the convoy was passing through the Takia, a very little prior to Azamgarh town, a stone hit the seventh motor vehicle in the convoy. Soon, stones started out coming from all instructions. Then came petrol bombs… It was a synchronized assault, planned effectively in advance. Its suddenness pulverized Yogi’s supporters. The fleet experienced been divided into 3. 6 motor vehicles experienced moved ahead and most of them were being remained considerably guiding. But a few of them in the middle came under assault. Assailants experienced surrounded the motor vehicles and started out attacking the occupants. They were being looked for their concentrate on. But he was nowhere to be uncovered.
His disappearance aggravated them and they turned fiercer. But wherever was Yogi? Soon after the adult males in the fleet recovered their senses, everyone was inquiring the similar query. In the meantime, reinforcements from other law enforcement stations experienced achieved the troubled site and suppliers on either side of the avenue came to the rescue and fashioned a shield all-around the motor vehicles under assault.
The city’s circle officer, Shailendra Srivastava, purchased a counter-offensive. A single man or woman was killed. The hurt in the convoy was being rushed to the healthcare facility. But there was continue to no trace of Yogi.” As the research for him got frantic, it was uncovered that Yogi experienced moved significantly farther ahead and was waiting for the rest of the motor vehicles. He was, in truth, in the to start with SUV of the fleet. The modify-over experienced been accomplished at a PWD guesthouse when the convoy experienced taken a quick split.
The attackers in Takia, most likely, did not have the information about this past-moment modify. Aside from this, the ebook has various other unreported nuggets from Yogi’s interesting daily life, from the scenic Pauri in Uttarakhand to a single of the most revered maths of Japanese UP and then lastly to the CM house in Lucknow.
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