How the conspiracy to kill Rajput leader and Karni Sena chief Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi unfolded step by step has been detailed for the first time, according to police sources.

On CCTV, Gogamedi was with four men at his Jaipur home on December 5, when suddenly, in the middle of a conversation, two of the men got up from their chairs and shot him.

Sources have said the mastermind of the plot to kill the Rajput leader was Rajasthan gangster Rohit Godara, who is suspected to be living in Canada and closely associated with Goldie Brar and Lawrence Bishnoi’s gangs linked to last year’s murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala.

Godara assigned the task of killing Gogamedi and the responsibility of hiring a shooter to his lieutenant, Virendra Charan, sources said.

Charan and Godara met in a jail in Rajasthan’s Ajmer while serving time in a rape case.

Godara told investigators that Gogamedi had been instrumental in the filing of the rape case against him, for which he planned to take revenge, sources said.

Charan soon took advantage of Godara’s anger and prepared him to killed Gogamedi.

Charan got his second shooter, Nitin Fauji, in jail. Fauji wanted to settle abroad, and so he sought advice from Charan, who assured of help once the ‘job’ was done, sources said.

Both shooters then made the plan to kill Gogamedi and kept in touch with Charan immediately before and after the killing, sources said.

Charan sent the guns to both the shooters in Jaipur through his network. The two later buried the guns near a hotel in the city, sources said. Police are working to recover the guns.

During initial investigation, a property dispute angle between Godara and Gogimedi had come to light. The question of caste equation is also being investigated.

The Rajput leader’s sensational murder, caught on CCTV cameras, sparked massive protests in Rajasthan which is going through a regime change after the BJP wrested power from the ruling Congress government in the recently held assembly elections.

The BJP, which has come to power after the recently-concluded assembly election but is yet to swear in a Chief Minister in the state, sought a probe by the anti-terror group National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the murder.

The BJP’s central observers have reached Chhattisgarh to finalise the appointment of a chief minister in the state where the party recently came to power after defeating the Congress in the assembly election.

The observers – Dushyant Gautam, Sarbananda Sonowal, and Arun Munda – are in state capital Raipur, accompanied by state BJP chief Arun Sao and state in-charge Om Mathur.

The BJP has been holding hectic meetings at the highest levels to pick three chief ministers for the three states where it won the recent elections – Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh.

Many leaders have been coming to meet with BJP chief JP Nadda at his Delhi home. A key meeting of the BJP’s newly-elected 54 MLAs is also likely to be held today, after which the suspense over the top post may finally end.

“Our party’s observers are coming, and we are waiting for the decision they take (at the meeting today),” Mr Mathur told news agency PTI, adding there is no “formula” to appoint a chief minister. There is a system set by the BJP’s parliamentary board which will be followed,” he said.

The BJP won 54 of the 90 seats and the Congress 35 in Chhattisgarh. The Gondwana Gantantra Party (GGP) managed to win a seat.

Speculation is high the BJP may select an Other Backward Classes (OBC) or a tribal chief minister if it doesn’t pick Raman Singh, who served as chief minister thrice from 2003 to 2018.

Vishnu Deo Sai, Renuka Singh, Ramvichar Netam, Lata Usendi, and Gomti Sai are being seen as contenders from the tribal community.

Mr Sao, who too resigned as an MP after being elected MLA, and OP Choudhary, both from the OBC community, are among the potential candidates.

Whoever is selected chief minister in Chhattisgarh will have a big role to play in the BJP’s campaign for the national election next year. The BJP aims to wipe out the Congress from this state in the Lok Sabha election.

In the 2019 election, the BJP won nine out of the total 11 seats in the state, while the Congress won only two.

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