Jaiswal, Sahai visit Jharkhand

Ranchi/Jamshedpur, Mar 5 (UNI) Union Ministers Sriprakash Jaiswal and Subodh Kant Sahai today arrived in Jamshedpur and paid tribute to slain JMM general secretary and MP Sunil Mahto.

Mahto and three others were gunned down by Naxalites in the state yesterday.

On arrival, the ministers went to the Tata main hospital where the bodies had been kept.

In his brief interaction with reporters, Mr Jaiswal, Union Minister of State for Home, condemned the killing. He said the Centre would not sit idle after seeing anti-social elements unleashing a reign of terror.

Earlier, Chief Minister Madhu Koda visited the hospital and consoled the slain leader's family members.

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