Exactly 21 years ago, on the intervening night of January 22-23, 1999 Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines (58) and his two sons Philip (10) and Timothy (7) were sleeping in a station wagon in front of a church at Manoharpur village in Keonjhar district in Odisha when members of Hindu terrorist organisation Bajrang Dal set ablaze the vehicle burning to death all its occupants.
Graham who had come to India in 1965 for nearly 35 years lived and worked with some of the poorest Adivasi communities in Odisha.
The Union minister and BJP leader Pratap Chandra Sarangi was the Odisha coordinator of the Bajrang Dal when Staines and his two kids were burned alive by Bajrang Dal members two decades ago.
Sarangi has been given the charge as Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in 2019 Modi Cabinet - a reward for his hindu terrorism.
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