Police said Kinkar Majhi was shot dead near his home in Bagnan on October 24 (Representation)
Howrah:
On Wednesday, the BJP implemented a blockade on a national road in Howrah district, West Bengal, to protest the murder of a party worker, alleging he was killed by the Trinamool Congress for political reasons, an accusation rejected by the ruling party.
The Saffron Party also today called a 12-hour bandh in the Assembly constituency of Bagnan to protest the murder of Kinkar Majhi, a party member from that region.
Police said Kinkar Majhi was shot dead near his home in Bagnan on October 24 in a land dispute and died in a hospital in Kolkata. One of the two people involved in the murder has been arrested.
Claiming that Kinkar Majhi, a flower merchant, was gunned down by congressional-protected morons from Trinamool to decimate the BJP’s “growing influence” in the region, local Saffron party activists have blocked NH-16 in the region de Mansatala by placing burning tires on the highway.
Later, they lifted the blockade with the intervention of the SDPO, Uluberia.
Howrah rural district BJP unit chairman Sibshankar Bej, who also led a protest outside the Bagnan police station, demanded that those named in the FIR by the bride of the dead be arrested.
State party secretary general Sayantan Basu said the party would organize a sit-in to protest the “killing of party activists” in the state.
Bagnan TMC MP Arunava Sen alleged the BJP was trying to stir up unrest in the state and play politics over the bodies.
Ms Sen claimed that the murder was linked to a property dispute and had nothing to do with politics.
