Bhopal: Slamming the dirty politics being played over the encounter of eight SIMI members by police, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday said the slain SIMI men were dreaded terrorists who could have wreaked devastation. Chouhan was talking to media persons here after paying tributes to Head Constable Ramashankar Yadav, who was killed by the activists while escaping from the Bhopal Central Jail early on Monday morning. Chouhan said he was pained to see that certain politicians were making hue and cry over the terrorists but not saying a word of solace for the martyred policemen. I am pained to see the kind of politics being played out. Some politicians are turning a blind eye to the sacrifices of the martyrs. They are unable to see the sacrifice of Ramashankar Yadav. These were the same terrorists who first killed Shivpratap Kushwaha (policeman) in Ratlam and then they murdered Sitaram Yadav (policeman) in Khandwa and now Ramashankar Yadav, he said.
…Had there been some solidarity and sympathy for the martyred jawans…I would have understood. But, they are playing vote-bank politics over incidents like these, he told. The CM added that those killed were dreaded terrorists who could have wreaked devastation if they had been fully successful in escaping.