Journalists In Hyderabad Take Out Rally Protesting Assassination Of Gauri Lankesh 

Hyderabad: Following the gruesome murder of Bengaluru-based journalist and rights activist Gauri Lankesh, journalist associations along with social activists, civil society organisations on Wednesday staged a protest at the Basheerbagh X Roads here in the city.

Members of Journalist Association of India(JAI), Telangana Journalists Association, Telangana Union of Working Journalists and several other representatives of digital, print and electronic media gathered at the Jagjivanram statue and took out a rally till the Ambedkar statue at theTank Bund. The journalists unequivocally condemned the murder and demanded a thorough probe into the gruesome attack. They wanted the police in Karnataka to book the perpetrators.

On Tuesday, unidentified assailants fired seven rounds at Gauri Lankesh when she stepped out of her car in front of her residence in Rajarajeshwari Nagar in Bengaluru city around 8 pm.

Prominent media personalities such as Sakshi Editorial Director Ramachandra Murthy, Indian Journalist Union Secretary-General Devulapalli Amar, Telangana Today Resident Editor Srinivas Reddy, Chandrakumar, Prof. PL Visweshwar Rao, Progressive Organization for Women's Sandhya, Telangana Praja Front leader Nalamasa Krishna, students of Osmania University, Hyderabad Central University (HCU) and others took part in the rally.