Amethi: After one of her close aides was killed here, BJP MP Smriti Irani Sunday asked party workers to exercise restraint, even as she said Congress president Rahul Gandhi's 'take-care-of-Amethi-with-love' message was "loud and clear" to her.
The BJP leader, who arrived here following the death of Surendra Singh (50), said he was killed so that Amethi could be "terrorised, disintegrated and made to bow down".
Irani, who unseated Gandhi from his bastion when results for the Lok Sabha elections were announced on May 23, told reporters "My request to all party workers is that we should exercise restraint."
In the first incident of post-poll violence in Uttar Pradesh, Singh, a close aide of Irani, was shot dead by two unidentified men. The police have not ruled out the possibility of it being a "political murder".
"On (May) 23, I was given a message that take care of Amethi with love. To the person, who gave me the message, I would like to say that I have received the message loud and clear," she said, referring to Gandhi's remarks without naming him.
On May 23, Gandhi had said, "I would like that Smriti Iraniji takes care of Amethi with love and I hope that she will reward the trust that Amethi's people have reposed in her."