ANOTHER BJP WORKER FOUND DEAD IN WEST BENGAL VILLAGE

MIDNAPORE:The body of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker was found hanging from a high tension electric pole in West Bengal’s Purulia on Saturday, just three days after the body of another BJP worker, Trilochan Mahato, was found.

While Mahato’s body was found in Supurdhi village in Balarampur block, that of 32-yearold Dulal Kumar, a district leader of the BJP OBC cell, was found at Dabha village, about 5km away.

BJP leaders alleged that goons backed by the TMC were behind the murders because the BJP had done well in the once-Maoist area in the recent polls. In Mahato’s case a note in Bengali found near the body said he had been punished for working for the BJP.

“Distressed to know about yet another killing of BJP karyakarta Dulal Kumar in Balrampur, Bengal. This continued brutality and violence in the land of West Bengal is shameful and inhuman, the BJP’s national president Amit Shah tweeted. “Mamata Banerjee’s govt has completely failed to maintain law and order in the state,” he added.

In Purulia, the TMC and BJP won 839 and 645 seats respectively in what ended up being the most hotly contested segment of the local polls. Out of the 38, Zilla Parishad seats, Trinamool won 26 seats and BJP nine.

Joy Biswas, the district police chief of Purulia, claimed that the marks on the body indicated suicide. “There could be angles of personal enmity or grudge,” said Biswas. “The local police are trying to pass off Dulal’s death as suicide. It is a conspiracy by Trinamool leaders and the police. His post mortem should be done by a team of five doctors and the proceedings should be videographed,” tweeted Kailash Vijayvargiya.