Gauri Lankesh the senior journalist and activist died on Tuesday in Bangalore, her death caused a major outrage across the country. In an interview with NDTV, her brother Indrajit Lankesh of Gauri Lankesh reveals that his sister Gaur received hate messages from Naxals.
“She succeeded in bring a couple of them from Naxalism to the mainstream. For that, she was getting some hate emails, hate letters,” her brother told NDTV.
Her brother also adds that " she never complained about the threats to me, my mother and my sister she received from realizes" He further said that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah told him that he had recently met Gauri Lankesh for over two hours.
“She was a firebrand and stuck to her ideology and I respected her ideology of the Left but it doesn’t mean that I agreed with her ideology,” Mr Lankesh, who has demanded a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation to punish his sister’s killers, said.
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