The Congress on February 26 described the killing of Indian National Lok Dal's (INLD) Haryana unit president Nafe Singh Rathee as the State's "first political murder" and demanded a probe into the incident either by a high court judge or a high court judge-monitored CBI investigation. Senior Congress leader Raghuvir Singh Kadian said Rathee's death was not natural.
"It is a political murder and the first such incident in Haryana after it was carved out as a separate State (in 1966)," Mr. Kadian said in the Assembly. At the beginning of the day's proceedings, the Haryana Assembly paid tributes to former Lok Sabha speaker Manohar Joshi, who died recently. Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar also led the House in paying tributes to Rathee.
