Punjab RSS leader Jagdish Gagneja dead

Deepkamal Kochhar and Shivani Bhakoo

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar/Ludhiana, September 22

Senior Punjab RSS leader Brig Jagdish Gagneja (retd), who had been battling for life for the past month and a half after being shot at, succumbed to his injuries at Dayanand Medical College and Hospital in Ludhiana on Thursday morning.

Gagneja, 65, considered the main architect of the RSS in Punjab, was shot at by two masked motorcyclists in Jalandhar on August 6. The attackers had followed Gagneja and his wife in their car from their residence at Deep Nagar in Jalandhar Cantonment. Gagneja had no security as he had refused the offer by the police.

With his intestines and other vital organs ruptured with bullets, he was shifted to the Ludhiana hospital and put on ventilator.