West Bengal: TMC leader shot dead in party office in Nadia

Trinamool leader and party block president was shot dead inside the party office. The incident happened around 9 pm on Sunday at Bagula area in Nadia district in Bengal.

Hanshkhali block president and Pradhan of Bagula I Gram Panchayat, 52-year-old Dulal Biswas was in a meeting with party workers at the Bagula party office at about 8.30 pm when about a dozen people, most of them masked, entered and sprayed him with bullets, killing him on the spot and injuring two others before they fled.

Biswas was rushed to the hospital where he was declared brought dead.

While TMC leaders alleged that the murder had been a handiwork of BJP and CPI(M) together, BJP and CPI(M) said that it was a result of an infighting within the TMC.

TMC district president Ujjal Biswas said, “It is a planned murder by the CPI(M) and BJP together. The intention is to scare us ahead of the panchayat elections next year.”

A family member of the deceased said that a police complaint has been filed and about 12 persons who had been identified had been named in the FIR.

The CID has taken over the investigation and two persons have been detained for questioning. Police have also recovered two …read more