Police said Gagneja shot at by some bike-borne persons at Jyoti Chowk area in Jalandhar.
Police said Gagneja shot at by some bike-borne persons at Jyoti Chowk area in Jalandhar.
Jalandhar: Senior RSS leader Brig (retd) Jagdish Gagneja was on Saturday night shot at by some bike-borne persons at Jyoti Chowk area in Jalandhar, police said.
Jalandhar Commissioner of Police Arpit Shukla said Mr Gagneja, Sah-sarsanghchalak of RSS's Punjab unit, was shot at around 9 pm.
He was rushed to a private hospital where his condition is stated to be critical.
Local BJP legislator Manoranjan Kalia said that three bullets hit Mr Gagneja.
Police have started a probe into the matter.
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Amarinder Singh condemned the attack on the RSS leader.
-"Such nefarious designs deserve to be nipped in the bud lest these push Punjab into anarchy,-" he said in a statement.
People may not agree or approve of RSS ideology, but in a democracy everyone has a right to pursue his political and ideological beliefs, Mr Amarinder said.
-"Such intimidation is unacceptable,-" he said.
