A Bharatiya Janata Party leader was shot multiple times at Titagarh in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Sunday evening, report...
A Bharatiya Janata Party leader was shot multiple times at Titagarh in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Sunday evening, reported NDTV. Manish Shukla died at a private hospital in Kolkata hours later. No arrests have been made so far.
The masked assailants came on motorcycles, said BJP workers who were present at the spot. Two BJP workers also sustained injuries. “We were at a programme together earlier in the evening,” said BJP’s Barrackpore Lok Sabha MP Arjun Singh. “He was attacked after returning to his office. Police were behind the attack. We saw more than eight bullet injuries on his body. I am also a target.”
Both Shukla and Singh had defected from the ruling Trinamool Congress to the BJP in 2018. Shukla was a former councillor of the Titagarh municipality. Elections are due in around 110 civic bodies in the state.
Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has summoned the home secretary and the director general of police to Raj Bhawan at 10 am on Monday. “ACS Home @MamataOfficial and DGP @WBPolice have been summoned at 10 am tomorrow in the wake of worsening law and order situation leading to dastardly killing of Manish Shukla, Councillor, Titagarh Municipality in political party office,” he tweeted.
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