BJP leader Vijay Kumar Singh was killed on Thursday in Patna when Bihar Police unleashed a brutal lathi-charge to disperse the party workers protesting against the domicile policy of teachers’ recruitment in the state.

Other party leaders, including MLAs and MPs, were also injured in the lathi charge. Police also fired tear gas shells and used water cannons to disperse their protest march. Many lay injured on the road after the incident with blood oozing out of head wounds, unable to walk. The top brass of the Bihar BJP, including state president Samrat Choudhary, several MPs, MLAs and MLCs, sustained lathi blows and were taken into custody during the mayhem unleashed by police. Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi  said that a large number of women party workers were also injured in the attack.

As per reports, Vijay Kumar Singh, general secretary of Jehanabad district, who was participating in the protest, sustained injuries on his head and chest during the police brutality and died during treatment in a hospital.

But denying responsibility for Vijay Kumar Singh’s death, the Patna district administration stated that he was “found unconscious by the roadside” and that “no injury marks have been found on his body.”

“Preliminary investigation and scrutiny of CCTV footages of different locations have revealed that Vijay Kumar Singh, who was a native of Jehanabad, had never reached the Dak Bungalow roundabout where the lathi-charge took place,” said a statement issued by Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Rajeev Mishra late on Thursday, as per a PTI report carried by The Print.

The SSP’s statement further termed Vijay Singh’s condition an ‘incident of fainting’, and that ‘exact cause of his death can only be ascertained after the post-mortem report.’

Here is a photo, shared in this Navbharat Times report, showing Vijay Kumar Singh being taken to hospital in a rickshaw. One can clearly see that his kurta is torn and soiled.

The district administration also maintained that “mild” force was used to disperse the BJP activists when they tried to breach the barricades put up at Dak Bungalow crossing and proceed towards “a prohibited area which houses many VIP installations”.

Readers can view the video footage that has emerged of the lathi-charge and decide for themselves.

Maharaganj MP Janardan Singh Sigriwal (64) was critically wounded in the lathi-charge (despite having Y-category security) and is currently admitted to hospital with a head and hand injury. His son said that his father was attacked with an intent to kill. It is reported that at least 23 BJP leaders/workers were injured in the police crackdown.

And how did media cover this shocking news story? A simple Google search for the phrase “BJP Vijay Kumar Singh” threw up these results under ‘Top Stories’ –

The news is mostly covered by Hindi media, and the one English-language ‘national’ outlet that shows up is Economic Times. But what is ET’s headline for this news?

“Bihar: BJP alleges its leader Vijay Kumar Singh died during Patna police crackdown”

Imagine if such a police crackdown had happened on Opposition leaders in a BJP-ruled state, or even on the lumpens who terrorized Delhi in name of ‘farmers protest’. The incident would have been splashed all over ‘national’ media and the news would have gone international. Do you think police denials about their involvement would have been accepted at face value by Lutyens’ media, in that scenario?

So why doesn’t the death of a political leader and the grave injuries to an elderly MP, both reportedly due to police brutality, bother our ‘liberals’? Is it because this is exactly what they secretly (and sometimes very openly – like this, this, this) wish for – that BJP is decimated, both figuratively and literally?

The ugly truth is that reality itself has been inverted in the ‘secular’ Republic of India. So BJP and Hindus are painted as the aggressors, the oppressors, whereas the truth is that being a BJP worker of a Hindu activist is arguably the most dangerous occupation in our country at the moment.

Dozens of Hindus suffer chilling hate crimes at the hands of fanatical anti-Hindu elements every week, yet our Supreme Court rushes to castigate Hindu organizations for alleged hate speech. West Bengal has been burning due to TMC-sponsored political violence for many years now, with the worst exhibition coming during the 2021 post-poll pogrom, yet SC delayed hearing multiple petitions filed over it. But at the first complaint of alleged violence in BJP-ruled Tripura, SC ordered the deployment of central forces for civic polls there.

All the Opposition parties are presently united by one thing – Hindu-hate…with only slight variances in the degree of Hinduphobia.

Bihar’s polity is showing dangerous signs of a deep-rooted anti-Hindu animus judging by rhetoric from ‘secular’ parties in recent times – utterances by leaders like Prof. Chandrashekhar Yadav (education minister, RJD MLA), Shivanand Tiwari (RJD national vice-president), Yaduvansh Kumar Yadav (former RJD MLA), Ritlal Yadav (RJD MLA) are proof of the rot that has set in among such parties.

Hindus have to realize that the violence being inflicted upon them is not just the fallout of political differences, but an existential civilization-ending threat.