He had called me yesterday, but we didn’t know about any plan to breach parliament security,” his mother Rani Sharma, a housewife, said. Earlier this week, he told his family that he was on his way to Bengaluru, without giving a clear explanation. It was Manoranjan who obtained the visitor’s pass from the office of BJP’s Mysuru-Kodagu member of Parliament Pratap Simha. It was a pass that let Manoranjan and Sagar Sharma enter Parliament, vault benches, and let loose gas canisters, bringing back memories of December 13, 2001. Or, in their own confused minds, perhaps of Bhagat Singh‘s revolutionary 1929 act in Parliament during British rule.

Source: Hindustan Times December 14, 2023 04:57 UTC