Three individuals have been arrested on Sunday in connection to the death of a Bharatiya Janata Party worker who succumbed to his injuries soon after an alleged attack by Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers through the BJP’s ‘Sankalp Yatra’ in Halisahar.
According to Manoj Kumar Verma, Commissioner of Police, Barrackpore, additional investigation into the matter is presently underway.
On Saturday, Saikat Bhawal, a BJP worker died allegedly soon after an attack by TMC workers. The household of Bhawal alleged that TMC workers all of a sudden attacked when the BJP workers have been going to voters for the party’s outreach programme.
After the attack, Bhawal had sustained injuries and he was rushed to the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital in Kalyani exactly where he was pronounced dead.
This incident came a handful of days soon after BJP national president JP Nadda’s convoy was attacked allegedly by TMC workers. Party leaders which includes Kailash Vijayvargiya have been injured as protesters pelted stones at their cars at Diamond Harbour.
On Sunday, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Roopa Ganguly hit out at West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee for the alleged killing of BJP worker in North 24 Parganas district and stated that the murders that are going on in the state, a single soon after the a further are shameful and harmful.
Speaking to ANI BJP MP Roopa Ganguly had stated, “The murders that are going on in West Bengal, one day after another, are very shameful and very dangerous. We have nothing but to accuse TMC because the government is protecting them, where the government and the party are working together. See, the party chief is also the same and the chief minister is also the same, then decision and interest are similar.”