पत्रकारिता का निडर और निर्भीक चेहरा, मीडिया की आजादी की पक्षधर, कन्नड़ भाषा की साप्ताहिक पत्रिका ‘लंकेश पत्रिके’ की संपादक व वरिष्ठ पत्रकार गौरी लंकेश की अज्ञात बदमाशों ने गोली मारकर हत्या कर दी। हमलावरों ने उनके घर में घुसकर लंकेश पर सात गोलियां चलाई और मौके पर ही उनकी मौत हो गई। वामपंथी विचारधारा से प्रभावित व दक्षिणपंथी संगठनों से वैचारिक मतभेदों को लेकर उन्हें अक्सर धमकिया मिलती रहती थी। गौरी लंकेश हिंदुत्ववादी राजनीति की मुखर आलोचक थीं। लंकेश पत्रकारिता की दुनिया के साथ साथ वह कर्नाटक की सिविल सोसायटी की चर्चित चेहरा थीं।
गौरी लंकेश की मौत की खबर से पत्रकारिता दुनिया समेत फ़िल्मी जगत, राजनितिक गलियारे में शोक फ़ैल गया। गौरी लंकेश की मौत ने लोगों को स्तब्ध कर दिया है। जाने माने पत्रकार, फ़िल्मी सितारे, राजनेता व साहित्यकारों ने लंकेश की मौत पर शोक प्रकट किया।
जो अपराधी नहीं होगें मारे जाएँगें…गौरी लंकेश/कलबुर्गी/पंसारे/दाभोलकर…#GauriLankesh pic.twitter.com/baTuQYPrjf
— punya prasun bajpai (@ppbajpai) September 5, 2017
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. #CheGuevara #GauriLankesh
— Vinod Kapri (@vinodkapri) September 5, 2017
Time to read lines of Pastor Martin Niemoller on Nazi Germany and remember if we don’t speak out now, it may soon be too late#GauriLankesh pic.twitter.com/mGaNqpQbMN
— Atishi Marlena (@AtishiMarlena) September 6, 2017
To kill someone for their views is not Democracy, its beginnings of a Banana Republic, where violence speaks louder than words #GauriLankesh
— Shekhar Kapur (@shekharkapur) September 6, 2017
When “intellectual” becomes an abuse, words are replied with bullets.RIP #GauriLankesh.
— Shirish Kunder (@ShirishKunder) September 5, 2017
In India we bow to frauds like Ram Rahim and kill men and women of reason & inquiry like Pansare, Dabholkar, Kalburgi & now #gaurilankesh
— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) September 5, 2017
Journalism is nothing without courage. Democracy is nothing without dissent. You had plenty of both #GauriLankesh You live on as inspiration
— Shekhar Gupta (@ShekharGupta) September 5, 2017
Woke up to disturbing news on #GauriLankesh. Left or Right or Center; it doesn’t matter. It has to be condemned on one voice. Come what may.
— Yashwant Deshmukh (@YRDeshmukh) September 6, 2017
Murder of #GauriLankesh is an assault on freedom. Her ideology irrelevant. Police investigation must be swift, killers booked, justice done
— Minhaz Merchant (@MinhazMerchant) September 6, 2017
Strongly condemn #GauriLankesh murder. No place for such brazen intolerance in a civilised democratic society. Exemplary punishment needed.
— Capt.Amarinder Singh (@capt_amarinder) September 6, 2017
Noted journalist and critic of right wing politics #GauriLankesh silenced in New India. Terrible time for dissent. RIP Bravo journalist
— Lalu Prasad Yadav (@laluprasadrjd) September 5, 2017
#GauriLankesh has been silenced. But it is time for India to speak out. If not now, then when?
— Sanjay Jha (@JhaSanjay) September 5, 2017
The kindest person I knew is no more.Rest in power, Gauri ji.#GauriLankesh pic.twitter.com/ju7fUIuMbk
— Shehla Rashid (@Shehla_Rashid) September 5, 2017
Pansare, Kalburgi, Dabholkar, Lankesh, who is next? What is going on? Why haven’t the guilty been caught in previous cases? #GauriLankesh
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) September 5, 2017
Systematic campaign of killing logical opposing voices? First it was Dabholkar, Kalburgi, Pansare. Now a journalist #GauriLankesh murdered?
— Mrs Anjali Damania (@anjali_damania) September 5, 2017
Gauri Lankesh was afraid of no one. Who was afraid of Gauri Lankesh?
— P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) September 6, 2017
Dhabolkar , Pansare, Kalburgi , and now Gauri Lankesh . If one kind of people are getting killed which kind of people are the killers .
— Javed Akhtar (@Javedakhtarjadu) September 5, 2017
Saddened by the murder of #GauriLankesh. India wasn’t supposed to be a country where journalists are silenced by bullets. Her voice rings on
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) September 5, 2017
Condemn killing of senior journalist Gauri Lankesh. Hope speedy investigation is conducted & justice delivered. Condolences to the family.
— Smriti Z Irani (@smritiirani) September 6, 2017
